Steam game removed after cryptostealer takes over $150K

Steam has taken down a crippled containing malware that drained the cryptocurrency wallets belonging to hundreds of players, arsenic reported earlier by Bleeping Computer. The free-to-play 2D platformer, titled BlockBlasters, took more than $150,000 from victims, including $32,000 from a streamer raising funds for their crab treatment.

In a station connected X, malware tracker vx-underground revealed that atrocious actors targeted immoderate streamers with a spearphishing run that attempted to lure victims into promoting the game successful speech for compensation. “Unfortunately, the Steam crippled was really a cryptodrainer masquerading arsenic a morganatic video game,” vx-underground wrote successful a station connected X.

As noted by Bleeping Computer, BlockBlasters archetypal appeared connected Steam connected July 30th, but the crippled softly added a cryptodrainer connected August 30th. It was published by developer Genesis Interactive and garnered much than 200 “very positive” reviews. The malicious rubric mostly flew nether the radar until Latvian streamer Raivo Plavnieks (Rastaland.TV), who has signifier 4 cancer, said that they mislaid $32,000 aft downloading BlockBlasters implicit the weekend.

Steam has removed a flurry of games that person infected Windows computers with malware, including PirateFi, Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution, and Chemia. Steam removed BlockBlasters connected September 21st. The Verge reached retired to Valve with a petition for comment, but didn’t instantly perceive back.