Spies target gamers with malware inserted into software updates, ESET says
Gamers are familiar targets for hackers, but those operations often are broadly aimed at stealing data, installing nuisances like adware or disrupting the games themselves. Sometimes, though, attackers have other things in mind. A malware operation in Asia appears to be “highly targeted” toward spying on only a handful of users of a popular piece of gaming software, according to cybersecurity researchers at Slovakia-based ESET. The attackers compromised the update mechanism for NoxPlayer, an emulator program that allows Android games to be played on PCs and Macs, ESET says. It’s a supply-chain attack, not unlike others with much bigger footprints and much larger geopolitical effects. The perpetrators appear to have broken into infrastructure at Hong Kong-based BigNox, which makes NoxPlayer, to add the malware to the updates that go to customers. The details get fuzzy from there. About 150 million people, mostly in Asia, use NoxPlayer. ESET says it discovered […]
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