When it comes to the world of gaming, especially where popular titles are concerned, you can be sure that mods do play a very important role, especially in the realm of PC gaming. Mods take an original premise of a game, and with some tweaks, you get transported to a totally different world. For instance, I clearly remember the Star Trek mod that I played in Doom 2, now that was a blast to run around the U.S.S. Enterprise! Well, considering how mods are still well and alive today, it looks as though at least one person has decided to take advantage of the situation and include some malicious code within for those who decide to download the said mod. In fact, the hugely popular Angry Planes and No Clip mods for Grand Theft Auto V are said to come with malicious code.
This would all the more highlight the importance of actually performing a scan of any files that you download online using proper and updated anti-virus and anti-malware tools prior to running them, as you cannot tell just what you might end up with. GTA Forums member aboutseven did some sleuthing around after realizing that Angry Planes began to misbehave, where a Fade.exe executable was found in his computer’s Temporary Files folder that was eventually deemed to be a keylogger, among others.
Other modules that were found to be active within the malware include a Facebook spam/credential stealing module, a Twitch spam/credential stealing module, a Messenger.com spam/credential stealing module, a Steam spamming module, a UDP flooding module and a keylogger module.
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