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Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named Block Blasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I saw this earlier today, the clip on lsf to be precise.
Modern computing sucks. I remember downloading sketchy shit from astalavista.box.sk (wiki article) all the time, and because of that I had to format c: several times a year. But these days? Scary stuff. Luckily I don't have crypto. And while proton on linux simulates a sandboxed windows environment, there's still free access to root via the Z: drive that wine sets up, so unless one uses the flatpak version which is even more sandboxed, there's still some potential danger there even as a linux user. It's just a matter of when.