50,000 Minecraft players are infected with a malicious program

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Security company Avast reported that nearly 50,000 Minecraft accounts were infected with malicious programs designed to format hard drives and remove backups and system programs. The malicious code itself is not too complicated and is considered to be a copy of the existing code, but it is hidden in the modified skin of the game and uploaded to the official Minecraft website because it is hosted on the official domain name and may be used by the user when the security software pops up a warning. Think it is a false alarm.

Minecraft is one of the most popular sandbox games. As of January 2018, there were 74 million players around the world. However, only a part of the uploaded skin was modified, and most of them used the default skin, so only a small percentage of people were infected. Avast said that they blocked 14,500 infection attempts in 10 days.

Avast issues some unusual message sample that appears in the user inbox:

“You Are Nailed, Buy A New Computer This Is A Piece Of Sh*t”
“You have maxed your internet usage for a lifetime”
“Your a** got glued”

Finally, to protect yourself, you should use a power antivirus software.

 

Tags: Minecraft