Hackers infect multiple game developers with advanced malware

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/hackers-infect-multiple-game-developers-with-advanced-malware/

By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
5/21/2020

One of the world’s most prolific hacking groups recently infected several 
Massively Multiplayer Online game makers, a feat that made it possible for the 
attackers to push malware-tainted apps to one target’s users and to steal 
in-game currencies of a second victim’s players.

Researchers from Slovakian security company ESET have tied the attacks to 
Winnti, a group that has been active since at least 2009 and is believed to 
have carried out hundreds of mostly advanced attacks. Targets have included 
Chinese journalists, Uyghur and Tibetan activists, the government of Thailand, 
and prominent technology organizations. Winnti has been tied to the 2010 hack 
that stole sensitive data from Google and 34 other companies. More recently, 
the group has been behind the compromise of the CCleaner distribution platform 
that pushed malicious updates to millions of people. Winnti carried out a 
separate supply-chain attack that installed a backdoor on 500,000 ASUS PCs.

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