The free-to-play game, PirateFi, infects users with malware that steals browser cookies, enabling the malware’s creator to hijack access to various online accounts. UPDATE 2/13: PirateFi game was also ...

Last week, Valve removed a game from its online store Steam because the product was laced with malware. After the removal of the game, which was called PirateFi, security researchers analyzed the ...

Digital video game distributor Steam’s parent company, Valve, has removed the free-to-play game PirateFi from its Steam storefront just days after its release. This move follows word that its ...

Steam users have been sent a warning by platform creator Valve after it removed a game containing suspected malware. The app in question, PirateFi, was available briefly as a free download but has ...

Valve has removed a malware-infected Free2Play game from its Steam store. The security firm Kaspersky reported this in a recent blog post. The pirate game "PirateFi" was removed from the store last ...

A free-to-play video game on Steam named 'PirateFi' has been unmasked as a malicious scheme to distribute the notorious Vidar info-stealer malware, prompting Valve to urgently remove the title and ...

TL;DR: Valve has alerted gamers via email about a newly released Steam game that contains malware, allegedly injected by the developer. Valve has sent out an email to gamers that recently launched a ...

On Thursday, February 6, hackers somehow uploaded a pirate-themed survival game called PirateFi onto Steam under the developer name Seaworth Interactive. The game contained malware designed to steal ...

What just happened? Valve is often criticized for allowing almost any game to be sold on Steam, no matter how amateurish it appears. However, despite the immense number of titles released daily, ...

Scammers are getting increasingly clever about injecting apps with malware. Certainly it's nothing new that malicious apps are littered across the internet, but lately they've been popping up with ...

UPDATE 2/13: PirateFi game was also circulated on the messaging app Telegram, according to a reader, who said: "Somebody in the channel that I was in sent a message that they had a in-game chat ...