Trojanized cheat tools for Minecraft, hosted on GitHub, have been identified as a major security risk after Check Point Research reported on their malicious activities. Approximately 500 repositories associated with these tools potentially exposed around 1,500 devices to malware that siphons sensitive information such as passwords and crypto wallets when executed. The operation, linked to Russian-speaking developers within the Stargazers Ghost Network, uses complex multi-stage attacks, requiring Java and pre-installed Minecraft, to avoid detection and successfully extract user data.
The malware purports to be popular cheat tools... kicks off a multi-stage attack with the first two written in Java and requiring Minecraft to be pre-installed.
The potential for data theft is huge... about 500 GitHub repositories were part of this operation targeting gamers.
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