Hackers have begun targeting players looking for cheats for popular video games, cheating them with an ad for certain improvements, and instead introducing ‘malware’ into their computer, as he has warned. Activision.
The developer and distributor has shared a report, ‘Cheating cheaters: malware delivery is Call of Duty Cheats’, on a new tactic: pretending to be a trap for Call of Duty: Warzone what is actually a ‘dropper’, a type of Trojan that facilitates access to the computer to another more harmful ‘malware’.
Specifically, the report examines the ‘Dropper’ Cod Dropped v0.1, and goes back to March 2020, when a series of announcements about a new method for distributing access Trojans were identified in various amateur forums. remote, known as RAT, for its acronym in English.
Unlike other, more sophisticated distribution methods, this ad was aimed directly at players prone to cheating, as this type of software requires some protective barriers, such as antivirus or ‘firewalls’, to be removed, and only Requests its execution with the highest levels of system privilege.
The ‘dropper’ that collects the report is aimed especially at players of Call of Duty: Warzone -a free multiplayer-, and is camouflaged in the forums as a trap easy to install and that the anti-cheating systems of the game does not detect.