Steam Game Update Reportedly Distributed Malware And Stole Money From Cancer Victim

Valve has beforehand applied safety measures on Steam to guard gamers from malware and dangerous actors. Nevertheless, it seems one other occasion of malware being distributed by way of a Steam sport replace has occurred, and it could have had dire penalties for at the least one participant.

In accordance with G Data, the 2D side-scrolling sport BlockBlasters had an replace on August 30 that included malware that may steal private info from any PC that the sport is working on. Extra insidiously, this malware can empty crypto pockets knowledge, and it reportedly did so to streamer rastalandTV, who’s at present battling stage 4 most cancers and was internet hosting a charity livestream.

RastalandTV shared his story on X about shedding $32,000 in creator charges after being coaxed to obtain the contaminated sport on Steam. He posted a video from his stream the place he observed what occurred as a cautionary story.

A number of customers on X have provided to ship rastlandTV funds to exchange what was misplaced. However he is only one sufferer, and it is unclear what number of different customers have been contaminated by BlockBlasters. The sport is not listed on Steam, which seems to point that Valve is now conscious of the problem. Third-party monitoring web site SteamDB has labeled the sport as “suspicious.”

Earlier this 12 months, Valve eliminated a sport known as PirateFi for additionally being full of malware and issued a warning to each participant that downloaded it. PirateFi gamers may have dodged a bullet when the sport would not run. BlockBlasters gamers will not be as fortunate, and it could imply that Steam customers should be extra cautious until Valve has a method of stopping this from occurring.