Steam game PirateFi exposed as dangerous info-stealing malware A free-to-play video game on Steam named 'PirateFi' has been unmasked as a malicious scheme to distribute the notorious Vidar info ...

Steam Game Downloads Used to Target Users with Malware Malware is slipping through Steam’s cracks—games like Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution and PirateFi have infected thousands. With trust shaken, ...

Just one month earlier, in February 2025, the game PirateFi was taken down from Steam after researchers discovered it delivered a cookie-stealing trojan, which enabled attackers to hijack users ...

Valve warned gamers who downloaded and launched the game PirateFi that the game’s developer “uploaded builts to Steam that contained suspected malware” and that those who launched the game likely had ...

After a game called PirateFi was released and then quickly taken down last month after it was found to be distributing malware, a new malicious game demo spreading info-stealing malware has been ...

This is in contrast to the Web3 game PirateFi, which was removed from Steam by Valve last month.

How PirateFi evaded Steam’s safeguards remains unclear. But to promote the game, the hacker used a bot on Telegram to advertise a paid position to gamers to act as a chat moderator for PirateFi.

This incident comes only a month after Steam hosted the PirateFi title, which was used to distribute the Vidar infostealing malware. Statistics showed that the game had been dowloaded by up to ...

The fraudulent free-to-play game PirateFi, discovered last month, was possibly the first well-known case of its kind since Steam's debut as the installer for Half-Life 2 in 2004.

Hijacking these cookies will give the attacker a chance to use the stolen session key to impersonate the person they are attacking. A month ago, another Steam game was spotted to be Windows Malware.

Instead, I found story after story about online video games and game platforms including Fortnite, Avowed, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Rockstar, Elden Ring Nightrein, PirateFi, Tomb Raider, Portal 2 ...