Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers' passwords | TechCrunch
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Researchers found that PirateFI was never designed to be a real game, but a vehicle to infect gamers with malware and steal their passwords with an infostealer called Vidar.
  • celeste
    4•2 days ago

    I wonder how many people downloaded it? It had 51 reviews, but I don’t know enough about steam reviews to say if 30 were the hackers or if that means a thousand people downloaded it.

    • .DonutsEnglish
      4•2 days ago

      Usually free games have twice the “sales” per review compared to paid games, so we’re looking at 80-90 * 51 = 4,080-4,590 “sales” provided all the reviews were legit. It’s not an exact science but a few thousand at least seems realistic.

      • celeste
        1•2 days ago

        seems likely that there are a good number of people looking for new free games to try out