Well, there’s some karma for you.
It turns out you really shoudn’t have used those cheats you found on a random, unsecured website. Because according to security firm Sophos, hundreds of Apex Legends and Counter-Strike players have had their personal information stolen by hacks for these games.
Via to the Sophos report, the cheats hosted malware, titled Baldr, which scraped all kinds of data from users. Credit card information, credentials for online storefronts, credentials for Battle.net, Steam and Epic Game Store, and even personal identity information.
The malware we analyzed does not perform a man-in-the-browser hijack and steal credentials as they are entered, but merely grabs anything that looks like it might contain useful or valuable data, including Bitcoin wallets, VPN profiles, and of course saved passwords from FTP clients, IM and chat services, and email clients. Baldr can scrape the saved passwords, cookies, and other information from at least 22 different web browsers and will relieve you of your hard-won cryptocurrency if you use one of 14 wallets the malware is capable of raiding.
The malware was mostly buried in files titled like “CSGO Aimbot+Wallhack” or “Apex Legends New Cheat 0.2.1”. Once they had your data, they were able to sell it off as they pleased on the dark web.
Well, at least you won a handful of matches so you could feel big and strong, right?
Source: Kotaku
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