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The FBI said it is investigating malware hidden inside several video games hosted on the Steam platform. The agency announced the investigation on Friday while asking potential victims to come forward if their systems may have been affected.
According to the FBI, a suspected hacker is believed to have published multiple games on the popular PC gaming marketplace over the past two years with malicious software embedded in them.
The agency listed several titles believed to be connected to the same cybercriminal. These include BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse, DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi , and Tokenova .
The games were hosted on the Steam store but reportedly contained malware designed to infect users’ computers.
This is not the first time hackers have used Steam to distribute malicious software. In some cases, the games appear to function normally but secretly act as Trojan horses that install malware once players download and run them.
A similar incident occurred last year when several games on Steam were found to contain malware. Although the titles were playable, they were created mainly to trick gamers into installing malicious software.
Steam eventually removed those games from the platform, but an unknown number of users had already downloaded them and may have been infected before the removal.
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