{"id":218688,"date":"2025-07-25T04:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hacker-sneaks-infostealer-malware-into-early-access-steam-game"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:15:21","slug":"hacker-sneaks-infostealer-malware-into-early-access-steam-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hacker-sneaks-infostealer-malware-into-early-access-steam-game","title":{"rendered":"Hacker sneaks infostealer malware into early access Steam game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacker-sneaks-infostealer-malware-into-early-access-steam-game.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the hacker (also tracked as Larva-208), injected malicious binaries into the Chemia game files hosted on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Chemia is a survival crafting game from developer \u2018Aether Forge Studios,\u2019 which is currently offered as <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2930480\/Chemia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">early access on Steam<\/a> but has no public release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title. A few days ago, the hacker (also tracked as Larva-208), injected malicious binaries into the Chemia game files hosted on Steam. Chemia is a survival crafting game from developer \u2018Aether Forge Studios,\u2019 which is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}