{"id":238220,"date":"2026-06-03T02:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/over-116000-minecraft-systems-infected-in-weedhack-malware-campaign"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:25:50","slug":"over-116000-minecraft-systems-infected-in-weedhack-malware-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/over-116000-minecraft-systems-infected-in-weedhack-malware-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Over 116,000 Minecraft systems infected in WeedHack malware campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-116000-minecraft-systems-infected-in-weedhack-malware-campaign.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large-scale malware campaign dubbed WeedHack is targeting Minecraft players and has infected more than 116,000 systems since January.<\/p>\n<p>The malware is distributed through Minecraft-related malicious mods, clients, cheats, and utilities that are promoted over YouTube and SEO (search engine optimization) poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>WeedHack works as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) infostealer operation that offers a dashboard for customers to see stolen credentials and information on compromised systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale malware campaign dubbed WeedHack is targeting Minecraft players and has infected more than 116,000 systems since January. The malware is distributed through Minecraft-related malicious mods, clients, cheats, and utilities that are promoted over YouTube and SEO (search engine optimization) poisoning. WeedHack works as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) infostealer operation that offers a dashboard for [\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-238220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238220","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=238220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}