Fake Minecraft Mods Infect 116K Systems With WeedHack Malware
Minecraft has remained a mainstay in the gaming landscape for over a decade thanks in large part to the abundant number of mods available for the game. Hackers are now weaponizing this prevalence of mods in the Minecraft ecosystem, with security firm McAfee detailing a new malware campaign that started at the beginning of this year, dubbed WeedHack, which has affected over 116,000 victims.
When players are interested in running mods they’ll typically use a search engine to find something that appeals to them. Attackers are leveraging this behavior to spread their malicious software by conducting SEO poisoning, where they’ll specifically seek mods that only have a presence on GitHub and then set up a web page masquerading as the official site for the mod. Some of the projects that have been targeted include Meteor Client, Radium Client, Wurst Client, Aristois, LiquidBounce and Impact Client.
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