Steam users beware! Bad guys hide malware inside fake game demos

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Steam users are being warned to be on their guard after cybercriminals were found trying to infect video game fans by disguising their malicious downloads as cool new games.

According to media reports, the popular Steam game service fell foul of fraudsters who created fake pages on the site in a bid to trick unsuspecting gamers into installing malware on their computers.

The bad guys took a demo of a genuine new game, Octopus City Blues, and replicated its page on the “Greenlight” section of the Steam site.





And, by all accounts, the bogus page was pretty convincing – with trailer videos, screenshots and full descriptions of what players could expect from the game which describes itself s “the authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure about everything and nothing.”

However, if you were tempted to try out the seven-level demo of the game and click on its download link you would have been taken to a site spreading malware.

The team behind Octopus City Blues stumbled across the malfeasance, and tweeted a warning to its fans.





Wow. Someone copied our Steam page to spread malware. Their virus demo contains 7 levels! Gotta step our game up [LINK]

Octopus City Blues designer Firas Assaad told Kotaku that whoever was behind the deception was trying to stamp out warning messages posed by the community:

“There were a few comments on the fake page warning people, but it seems that they were deleted. If it stays up I might send a DMCA complaint since companies take them more seriously.”

Steam has since erased the offending webpage, and another purporting to be related to a game called Garlock Online.

Read more: http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/...ide-malware-inside-fake-game-demos-11683.html
 
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