Hackers Launching Self-Spreading Malware To Attacks Gamers via YouTube

Hackers Launching Self-Spreading Malware To Attacks Gamers via YouTube

If you are a gamer and looking for cheats and cracks for games then you should be aware that YouTube has become a target for malicious video tutorials that target people looking for cheats on YouTube. 


For the purpose of spreading the malicious package even further, the threat actors are advertising these fraudulent tutorials with fake cheats and cracks for popular video games.

Popular Games Targets


There have been YouTube videos promoting a bundle of self-replicating malware targeted at fans playing the following video games:-


  • APB Reloaded

  • CrossFire

  • DayZ

  • Dying Light 2

  • F1® 22

  • Farming Simulator

  • Farthest Frontier

  • FIFA 22

  • Final Fantasy XIV

  • Forza

  • Lego Star Wars

  • Osu!

  • Point Blank

  • Project Zomboid

  • Rust

  • Sniper Elite

  • Spider-Man

  • Stray

  • Thymesia

  • VRChat

  • Walken


  • Links to fake cheats and cracks are embedded in these malicious video tutorials. However, the target actually installs the self-spreading malware bundle that disguises itself as cracks and cheats.


    Technical Analysis


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