The infiltrators somehow downloaded a game full of harmful programs on Steam

On Thursday, February 6, infiltrators somehow downloaded the survival game under the title of pirate called Piratefi on Steam under the name of the developer Seworth Interactive. The game contains harmful programs designed to steal the user cookies. Piratefi was awake for at least a week before Valve took it from the store interface Users users Their computers may be in danger.

The Steam for Piratefi page has been dropped, but you can still find some online screen clips. according to SteamdbPerhaps 800 to 1500 people have downloaded a free gameplay before deleting it. A user even indicated that the screen and video clips used to promote the game were already taken from the current survival game called Easy Survival RPG.

PCMAGThat was originally informed in the game, said that some users of antivirus programs have placed a mark on the game before running as “Trojan.win32.lazzzy.gen”, a type of harmful programs that try to steal cookies for the browser. Using this information, infiltrators can access the various online user accounts.

PCMAG also reported that a person representing Piratefi publishes job offers for “Modairor in the game” for $ 17, which was revolving on Telegram. A PCMAG reader told that they are suspected of talking to Chatbot based on the speed and help of responses and that they should download the game with harmful programs.

After downloading the game, the Valve users who played Piratefi sent a message saying, “The Steam of the Developer account for this game is downloaded to Steam, which contains malware suspected.”

Valve recommends that users who download Piratefe perform a full system of system using an antiviral program and verify auspicious or newly installed software on their PPCs. As the last resort, Valve also recommends to reinstall Windows to completely rid their system of any potential harmful programs.

This is the only game for “Developer” Seawth Interactive; Regardless of the eliminated steam page, the developer had no Web or social media, which should have already spoiled the alarm bells for anyone notice.

We called Valve to comment but did not hear again. The big question remains: How was the game launched with harmful programs on Steam? More importantly, what is the Valve plan to prevent something like that again?