Activision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt this point, the hackers’ specific goals — apart from stealing passwords for various types of accounts — are unclear. Somehow, the hackers are getting malware on the victim’s computers and then stealing passwords for their gaming accounts and crypto wallets, among others, according to sources.
A person with knowledge of the incidents, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press, said that people at Activision Blizzard are investigating, trying to ‘help remove the malware,’ and ‘working on identifying and remediating player accounts for anyone affected.’
‘There is not enough data yet on how [the malware] is spreading,’ the person said. ‘It could be only affecting folks who have third party tools installed.’
The malware campaign appears to have been uncovered first by Zeebler, a person who develops and sells cheating software for the popular first-person shooter Call of Duty. On Wednesday, in the official channel for the PhantomOverlay cheat provider, Zeebler said that hackers were targeting gamers — some who use cheats — to steal their usernames and passwords.
Zeebler described the effort as an ‘infostealer malware campaign,’ where malware designed as legitimate-looking software unknowingly installed by the victim surreptitiously steals their usernames and passwords.
After that, Zeebler said he contacted Activision Blizzard as well as other cheat makers, whose users appear to be affected.
At this point, there are no reasons to believe regular players of Activision games are at risk, just those who use third-party apps such as cheats.
Ref: techcrunch
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