Malicious Cheats for Call of Duty: Warzone Circulating Online

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/activision-warns-of-malware-masquerading-as-cheats-for-call-of-duty-warzone/

Criminals have been hiding malware inside publicly available software that purports to be a cheat for Activision’s Call of Duty: Warzone, researchers with the game maker warned earlier this week.

Cheats are programs that tamper with in-game events or player interactions so that users gain an unfair advantage over their opponents. The software typically works by accessing computer memory during gameplay and changing health, ammo, score, lives, inventories, or other information. Cheats are almost always forbidden by game makers. On Wednesday, Activision said that a popular cheating site was circulating a fake cheat for Call of Duty: Warzone that contained a dropper, a term for a type of backdoor that installs specific pieces of malware chosen by the person who created it. Named Warzone Cheat Engine, the cheat was available on the site in April 2020 and again last month.

People promoting the cheat instructed users to run the program as an administrator and to disable antivirus. While these settings are often required for a cheat to work, they also make it easier for malware to survive reboots and to go undetected, since users won’t get warnings of the infection or that software is seeking heightened privileges. “While this method is rather simplistic, it is ultimately a social engineering technique that leverages the willingness of its target (players that want to cheat) to voluntarily lower their security protections and ignore warnings about running potentially malicious software,” Activision researchers wrote in a deep-dive analysis.

Malicious cheats for Call of Duty: Warzone are circulating online

The cheat is fake, but the malware it installs is the real thing.

arstechnica.com

 

[Venustus]

Malicious cheats for Call of Duty: Warzone are circulating online

The cheat is fake, but the malware it installs is the real thing.

arstechnica.com

I really can't feel sorry for them..!

 

[Kongo]

When cyber criminals reach more than the Anti-Cheat of the game does.