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Malware Distributed Through Twitch Chat Is Hijacking Steam Accounts
An anonymous reader writes If you use Twitch don't click on any suspicious links in the video streaming platform's chat feature. Twitch Support's official Twitter account issued a security warning telling users not to click the "csgoprize" link in chat. According to f-secure, the link leads to a Java program that asks for your name and email. If you provide the info it will install a file on your computer that's able to take out any money you have in your Steam wallet, as well as sell or trade items in your inventory. "This malware, which we call Eskimo, is able to wipe your Steam wallet, armory, and inventory dry," says F-Secure. "It even dumps your items for a discount in the Steam Community Market. Previous variants were selling items with a 12 percent discount, but a recent sample showed that they changed it to 35 percent discount. Perhaps to be able to sell the items faster."
If someone wants me to type in my account and then my password I won't
I really won't
Common sense tells me that no one has any right to demand me to type in my account name/number and then my password
That is why I do not understand why there _are_ people who are simply void of any common sense
Ain't there enough stories of scams already? Why can't those people learn _anything_ from the mistakes of others?
Except in this case it does not. It asks for your name and email. Nowhere does it say anything about a password.
If someone wants me to type in my account and then my password I won't
I really won't
Common sense tells me that no one has any right to demand me to type in my account name/number and then my password
That is why I do not understand why there _are_ people who are simply void of any common sense
Ain't there enough stories of scams already? Why can't those people learn _anything_ from the mistakes of others?
No where do they say they are asking for the steam account info. Fake raffle wants a username/email & password to sign up, then it installs a program that access your steam stuff. most people on their home computer either have steam running all the time and are logged in, or auto log in.
I do don't do twitch.tv and I don't bother signing up for online raffles or anything claiming i will win something, because that is stupid.
But yes, giving your account info out is very dumb, but I don't think that is the case here from the summary & article.
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