RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 19 days agoGamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accountssecurelist.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkGamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accountssecurelist.comRSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square6linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
minus-squareGhoelian@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoYeah, I used to use it a long time ago when I was still on windows (supposedly it also works on Linux though). Iirc you can distribute wallpapers on wallpaper engine as arbitrary JavaScript or just an executable, so this news doesn’t surprise me at all.
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 days agoYeah, it’s the ‘Application’ wallpapers which are the attack vector here. Hardly surprising that malware peeps would be all over it
Yeah, I used to use it a long time ago when I was still on windows (supposedly it also works on Linux though).
Iirc you can distribute wallpapers on wallpaper engine as arbitrary JavaScript or just an executable, so this news doesn’t surprise me at all.
Yeah, it’s the ‘Application’ wallpapers which are the attack vector here.
Hardly surprising that malware peeps would be all over it