The FBI is investigating a hacker who is suspected of publishing several video games containing malware on the popular PC game store Steam. agency said on friday.
In its announcement looking for victims who may have been infected, the FBI listed the following games suspected to be developed by the same cybercriminal over the past two years, which are hosted on the Steam Store but embedded with malware: BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse/DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and TokeNova.
This is not the first time that hackers have been able to host malware on the Valve-owned game marketplace. Last year, hackers published many game On Steam which contained malware. The games were functional, if a bit rudimentary. In fact, the goal of their developer or developers was to act as a type of Trojan horse, tricking gamers into installing malware on their computers. Steam shut down the games, but an unknown number of people became infected in the meantime.
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Valve and the FBI did not respond to requests for comment.
