An Innocent Steam Wallpaper Can Steal Your Account - but Kaspersky’s Warning Has a Dark History Too

Kaspersky discovered a malware campaign targeting Steam users through infected wallpaper - SME Tech Guru

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered an ongoing malware distribution campaign leveraging Steam Workshop and Wallpaper Engine, a popular Steam application used to create and share animated desktop wallpapers. Researchers identified multiple infected wallpaper packages which had accumulated thousands of downloads. Steam users in China and Russia were primarily targeted, with other victims located in Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Vietnam, India an…

An Innocent Steam Wallpaper Can Steal Your Account - but Kaspersky’s Warning Has a Dark History Too

Malicious Wallpaper Engine wallpapers uploaded to Steam Workshop have reportedly been stealing Steam accounts for months, with attackers using compromised profiles to spread more infected content. The threat is real, but the company issuing the warning, Kaspersky, also carries serious baggage: Hungarian reporting from Telex and 444 has covered U.S. intelligence allegations that Russian intelligence services may have used the company’s software f…