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Star Citizen game dev discloses breach affecting user data
Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the game company behind Star Citizen and Squadron 42, says attackers breached systems containing some users’ personal information in January. The California-based publisher and video game developer was founded in 2012 by game developer Chris Roberts (of Wing Commander fame), and it operates five game studios with a crew of over […]
NationStates confirms data breach, shuts down game site
NationStates, a multiplayer browser-based game, has confirmed a data breach after taking its website offline earlier this week to investigate a security incident. The government simulation game, developed by author Max Barry and loosely based on his novel Jennifer Government, disclosed that an unauthorized user gained access to its production server and copied user data. […]
‘Bad actor’ hijacks Apex Legends characters in live matches
Apex Legends players over the weekend experienced disruptions during live matches as threat actors hijacked their characters, disconnected them, and changed their nicknames. Respawn, the publisher of the still popular battle royale-hero shooter, issued a public statement about the security incident, assuring players that it hadn’t been caused by an exploit or malware infection. The title […]
Steam and Microsoft warn of Unity flaw exposing gamers to attacks
A code execution vulnerability in the Unity game engine could be exploited to achieve code execution on Android and privilege escalation on Windows. Unity is a cross-platform game engine and development platform that provides rendering, physics, animation, and scripting tools for developers to create titles for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, consoles, and the web. A […]
Verified Steam game steals streamer’s cancer treatment donations
A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named BlockBlasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet. BlockBlasters is a 2D platformer that was available on Steam for almost two months, between July 30 and September 21. The game was safe until August 30, when a cryptodrainer component was added. Published […]
Steam will stop running on Windows 32-bit in January 2026
Valve has announced that its Steam digital distribution service will drop support for 32-bit versions of Windows starting January 2026. Two years earlier, in January 2024, Steam also dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, recommending users to upgrade to a newer operating system. Although Steam will soon stop running on Windows 10 32-bit […]
Hacker sneaks infostealer malware into early access Steam game
A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title. A few days ago, the hacker (also tracked as Larva-208), injected malicious binaries into the Chemia game files hosted on Steam. Chemia is a survival crafting game from developer ‘Aether Forge Studios,’ which is […]
Steam pulls game demo infecting Windows with info-stealing malware
Valve has removed from its Steam store the game title ‘Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution’ following multiple users reporting that the demo installer infected their systems with information stealing malware. The game, published under the developer name ‘Sierra Six Studios,’ was supposed to be an early preview of the title with a release planned in the coming months. […]
Microsoft lifts Windows 11 upgrade block after Asphalt 8 crash fix
Microsoft has lifted an upgrade block that prevented Asphalt 8: Airborne players from upgrading their systems to Windows 11 24H2 due to compatibility issues. According to its Microsoft Store entry, the game has over 322,000 ratings and 470 million players across all supported platforms. As the company explained when it first acknowledged this known issue in October, the game was […]
Malicious PirateFi game infects Steam users with Vidar malware
A free-to-play game named PirateFi in the Steam store has been distributing the Vidar infostealing malware to unsuspecting users. The title was present in the Steam catalog for almost a week, between February 6th and February 12th, and was downloaded by up to 1,500 users. The distribution service is sending notices to potentially impacted users, […]