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A Crypto Malware ‘Game’ On Steam Stole $32,000 From Cancer-Stricken Streamer
['John Walker', 'Ethan Gach', 'Claire Jackson']
Kotaku
Hence BlockBlasters, a Trojan-Horse 2D platformer that released as an innocent game, before being updated such that it could start draining players’ crypto wallets.
But a month later, on August 30, the game was updated with a couple of zip files, which appear to have contained malware that allowed the game to empty players’ crypto wallets.
The “game” was obviously released as free, to tempt as many people into taking a look as possible.
It was only when streamer Raivo Plavnieks (RastalandTV) was running a fundraiser to help raise money to treat his stage-4 sarcoma that the cruel nature of the malware became apparent.
Earlier this year a web3 “game” called PirateFi was stealing Steam accounts, and it’s just another of many examples.
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