Many users of Steam, Valve’s online gaming platform, have complained over the past few weeks about game items getting stolen, and the culprit appears to be a new piece of malware.
According to Doctor Web, the attackers use Steam chat and forums to lure their victims by sending messages claiming that they want to trade various items. The “image” files attached to these messages, which show the items allegedly being traded, hide a piece of malware detected by the Russia-based security firm as Trojan.SteamBurglar.1.
Once it’s executed, the Trojan targets the steam.exe process and extracts information on game items, Dr. Web said. Then, the items are transferred to an account owned by the attacker. The threat is designed to look for key words such as “legendary,” “immortal” and “rare” to make sure that the stolen items are valuable.
