Fortnite has more than 100 million players, but many of them use cheaters. So far all this well, but lately there have been too many malware infections.
The victims? Those who tried to cheat and beat other players.
From last weekteam, game streaming shop Rainway found a growing number Alarms in the security log files. The only common factor for all alarms was that everything came from people who played Fortnite and followed a particular pattern.
Η company παρακολουθούσε τα alarms μέχρι τη στιγμή που ο αριθμός έφτασε στους 381.000 users. So he decided to run some tests. The company assumed that some were using some code to cheat the game, and that this code was the cause of the problems.
The team at Rainway searched all the Fortnite cheats around the internet and ran some tests. The Results it wasn't good: each of them also contained malware.
The company found out that malware, besides cheating on the cheater user, also collected V-bucks, the currency used by Fortnite to buy in the game. Cheatware also created a backdoor that allowed man-in-the-middle attacks.
The malicious app had over 78.000 downloads and was hosted on many websites. As it seems, the developers of Fortnite should secure their platform more as cheaters will not stop existing and being used by some who do not know what fair-play means. Of course even malicious users will not stop serving cheats with malware, as demand requires supply...
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