This article was originally published on link to post
Meccha Chameleon–a multiplayer prop-hunt game that’s been blowing up on Steam lately–seems to have hit its first real road bump since it launched in early June. As pointed out by a player who goes by Feint, some of the game’s player-made maps are basically just Trojan horses containing malware. One of Feint’s friends had mentioned briefly seeing a command prompt appear while they were downloading the map. Curious, Feint dug into the files and concluded that the map known as Lazer Tag Zero contained a “malware dropper.”
The map was quickly pulled from Meccha Chameleon’s Steam Workshop page after Feint published their findings in a Medium article. But the chaos was just beginning. Other malware-filled maps started appearing, and then the game’s official Discord server was hacked.
“Security was completely breached, the server creator’s account was hijacked, and all admins were banned, so we can’t take action from our side,” Meccha Chameleon creator Lemorion_1224 shared in an auto-translated X post over the weekend.
The news was also shared via an update on the game’s Steam page, clarifying that the game itself wasn’t a security risk, and could still be played safely as long as user-made maps weren’t used. Still, things
0 Comments