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Cracked Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive games infect gamers with miners
A large-scale malware campaign dubbed “StaryDobry” has been targeting gamers worldwide with trojanized versions of cracked games such as Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive, and Dyson Sphere Program. These titles are top-rated games with hundreds of thousands of ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews on Steam, making them good targets for malicious activity. It’s worth noting that a laced Beamng mod was reportedly used as…
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Fake CrowdStrike job offer emails target devs with crypto miners
CrowdStrike is warning that a phishing campaign is impersonating the cybersecurity company in fake job offer emails to trick targets into infecting themselves with a Monero cryptocurrency miner (XMRig). The company discovered the malicious campaign on January 7, 2025, and based on the phishing email’s content, it likely didn’t start much earlier. The attack starts with a phishing email sent…
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