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Steam Hosted Malware Game that Stole $32,000 from a Cancer Patient Live on Stream (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 days ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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https://archive.ph/2025.09.23-142643/https://www.404media.co/steam-hosted-malware-game-that-stole-32-000-from-a-cancer-patient-live-on-stream/

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can someone pleae tell me the name of the game so I can be sure I don't have it

[–] PenguinOfWar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Plavnieks had installed a game called BlockBlasters, a 2D platformer listed on Steam that launched July 31, 2025 to a small audience who’d given it positive reviews. But the game was a scam and an August patch injected malware into the game that was meant to scan a user’s hard drive for data and, ultimately, their crypto. BlockBlasters is no longer listed on Steam and has been flagged as malicious by the independent Steam archiving site SteamDB. Valve did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment.

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