Hackers have started targeting players looking for tricks for popular video games, fooling them with an ad to get some improvements and instead introducing “malware” on their computer, as Activision warned.
The developer and distributor have released a report, “Cheat cheaters: malware delivery as Call of Duty Cheats”, about a new tactic: to pass as a trap for Call of Duty: Warzone which is actually a “dropper”, a Trojan guy . which makes it easier for the computer to access other more harmful “malware”.
Specifically, the report examines Dropper Code v0.1 “dropper” and returns in March 2020, when a series of announcements about a new method of distributing known remote Trojans was identified in various “hacker” forums. Like RAT, for its acronym in English.
Unlike other more sophisticated distribution methods, this ad was intended directly for players prone to deception, as this type of “software” requires the removal of security barriers, such as antivirus or “firewall”, and requires broadcast with the highest levels of privilege on the system.
The “dropper” included in the report is aimed primarily at Call of Duty: Warzone players – a free multiplayer – and is camouflaged in forums as an easy-to-install trap that the game’s anti-cheating systems do not detect.