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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?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Several things annoyed me with this.
1) gamers that don't run basic AV
2) gamers that don't run sandboxing software over their browser (Sandboxie for example, shits TRIVIAL to use and is even foolproof!)
3) people DOWNLOADING programs for competitions...
4) actually wanting to play CS Go. The worst sin of them all.
5) Twitch still hasn't word-banned people typing these messages and any variants. It's not like their servers would break, they already have filters in place.
Let them suffer. These are the kind of morons that probably also ran / run Internet Explorer with 5 bars taking up 1/3 the height of their screens so they can search products or use FUNNY SMILIES IN YOUR EMAILS.