The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam
The FBI is looking into games on Steam that secretly hid viruses, asking gamers to share if they got bad software without knowing.
Washington, DC: The FBI told people yesterday that some games on Steam, where you buy computer games, have special viruses inside them. These bad programs can let hackers get into your computer and steal stuff like passwords or pictures.
The FBI is trying to learn about seven different games. These games have names like BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova. Steam is owned by a company called Valve, which sells lots of games there. Hackers put simple games there that looked okay but really put nasty stuff on your computer.
This isn’t the first time this has happened on Steam. Last year, some other games on Steam also had viruses. The games worked like normal video games, but bad people made them to act like Trojan horses. That means they tricked people into installing viruses thinking they were getting a game.
Steam took those games off their store, but some people already got the viruses by then. The FBI wants anyone who thinks they played these games to tell them so they can learn more about what happened.