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Steam Workshop Malware Campaign Uses Wallpaper Engine to Steal Accounts and Infect Gamers


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2026-06-17 07:52:15
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A sophisticated malware campaign has been abusing Steam Workshop’s sharing model to distribute backdoors, infostealers and crypto miners hidden inside Wallpaper Engine packages, primarily targeting gamers in China and Russia. The campaign exploits Wallpaper Engine’s “application” wallpaper type essentially standalone executables that run as animated desktop backgrounds to execute arbitrary code the moment a user […]


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