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Watch out, hacked Steam accounts used as an attack vector

Malware researcher Lawrence Abrams from Bleepingcomputer.com has found a worrisome message on Reddit warning of the existence of compromised Steam accounts spreading a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) The accounts were used to send chat messages containing links to videomeo.pw to watch a video. The trick is quite simple and leverages on the users curiosity when it downloads and executes the Flash Player installer apparently nothing happens, but in reality the victim has opened its machine to the attacker.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51824/malware/hacked-steam-accounts.html

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