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18 days

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine

securelist.com English

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1201475/kaspersky-says-hackers-are-distributing-malware-via-anime-girl-wallpapers-on-steam-works

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    Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts
    securelist.com
    Since late 2025, malware has been spreading rapidly through the Steam Workshop. In most cases, we caught old, familiar threats such as DarkKomet, the Lumma and Vidar infostealers.
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    • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18 days

      Any wallpaper from the Steam Workshop that also requires a separate EXE or DLL file to run is an insta-no-dawg from me.

      • subOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18 days

        They know their audience.

        • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
          18 days

          Any Wallpaper Engine enthusiasts here that can educate me as to why it’s so popular?

          Is it really that much better than just finding wallpapers with an image search like in the old days?

            • Quadrexium@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              18 days

              Wallpaper engine allows for animated/video wallpapers. When I used windows I had this cool neutron star wallpaper that would spin around

                • flameleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  18 days

                  I thought those were a waste of resources when that kind of feature debuted with Windows Vista, but I’m the kind of guy who runs Xfce with animations turned off, so…

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