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Steam upgrades security after games hijacked to spread malware

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Dissent

Imogen Donovan reports:

Valve has been in contact with several game developers who were hit by hackers who used a vulnerability to hide malware in their games on Steam.

The hackers’ intention was to play the malware off as an update to the installed game on players’ PCs, then infecting them when the “new build” was downloaded.

Read more at NME.

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