{"id":238153,"date":"2026-06-02T02:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/wordpress-malware-campaign-hides-payloads-in-steam-profiles"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:18:27","slug":"wordpress-malware-campaign-hides-payloads-in-steam-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/wordpress-malware-campaign-hides-payloads-in-steam-profiles","title":{"rendered":"WordPress malware campaign hides payloads in Steam profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wordpress-malware-campaign-hides-payloads-in-steam-profiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor used invisible Unicode characters to encode a payload that builds a URL to a malicious script. By leveraging Valve\u2019s platform, the attacker avoids maintaining a separate C2 infrastructure and evades traditional detection methods.<\/p>\n<p>Since the campaign was first uncovered in July 2025, GoDaddy security engineers have found malware on approximately 1,980 WordPress websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data. The threat actor used invisible Unicode characters to encode a payload that builds a URL to a malicious script. By leveraging Valve\u2019s platform, the attacker avoids maintaining a separate C2 infrastructure and evades traditional detection [\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-238153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238153","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=238153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}