{"id":246579,"date":"2026-11-05T02:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/nikke-pc-game-launcher-hacked-to-spread-remote-access-data-stealing-malware"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:44:18","slug":"nikke-pc-game-launcher-hacked-to-spread-remote-access-data-stealing-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/nikke-pc-game-launcher-hacked-to-spread-remote-access-data-stealing-malware","title":{"rendered":"NIKKE PC game launcher hacked to spread remote access, data-stealing malware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The developers of Goddess of Victory: NIKKE have confirmed that hackers tampered with the game\u2019s PC launcher scripts in a supply-chain attack, distributing malware capable of stealing credentials and cryptocurrency wallet data.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notice published on X, a client update was issued on November 4 at 02:30 (UTC +9) to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have identified an issue indicating that the PC Launcher\u2019s script files may have been tampered with by a third party,\u201d reads the <a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/NIKKE_en\/status\/2117817602659770434\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of Goddess of Victory: NIKKE have confirmed that hackers tampered with the game\u2019s PC launcher scripts in a supply-chain attack, distributing malware capable of stealing credentials and cryptocurrency wallet data. According to a notice published on X, a client update was issued on November 4 at 02:30 (UTC +9) to address the issue. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246579","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=246579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}