{"id":40264,"date":"2021-04-01T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32158\/Activision-Reveals-Malware-Disguised-As-Call-Of-Duty-Warzone-Cheats.html"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:07:04","slug":"activision-reveals-malware-disguised-as-call-of-duty-warzone-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/activision-reveals-malware-disguised-as-call-of-duty-warzone-cheats\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision Reveals Malware Disguised As Call Of Duty: Warzone Cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"topic-callout\" readability=\"7.2888888888889\">\n<div class=\"topic-callout__img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/topic\/cyber\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/topics\/57a205628cb727dec795a6b1\/callout_logo\/1614199980283-screen-shot-2021-02-24-at-34918-pm.png?resize=240:*\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-02-24 at 3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard&#8217;s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"29\"><\/p>\n<p>Hackers hid malware inside a cheat for <em>Call of Duty: Warzone<\/em>, according to new research published by the game&#8217;s publisher Activision.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30.10970464135\"><\/p>\n<p>Security researchers at the gaming company <a href=\"https:\/\/research.activision.com\/publications\/2021\/03\/cheating-cheaters-malware-delivered-as-call-of-duty-cheats\">published an in depth report<\/a> about the malware on Wednesday, revealing the clever malware campaign. Activision security researchers found that a <em>Warzone <\/em>cheat advertised on popular cheating forums was actually malware that let hackers take control of the victims&#8217; computers. The cheat installed a &#8220;dropper,&#8221; a type of malicious application that can be used to download and install other types of malware on the victim&#8217;s computer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adph adph--border\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"33\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dropper examined in this report, &#8216;Cod Dropper v0.1,&#8217; can be customized to install other, more destructive, malware onto the targets\u2019 machines,&#8221; the report reads.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"28\"><\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the recent malware campaign targeting gamers said that one of the goals of the malware was to use gamers&#8217; powerful GPU&#8217;s to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31.096153846154\"><\/p>\n<p>There is a sprawling industry of developers, sellers, re-sellers, and users of cheats for popular online games. These cheats are used by thousands of gamers, some of whom get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/7k9m5a\/call-of-duty-warzone-bans-more-than-60000-cheaters\">routinely<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/3azg9n\/activision-bans-20000-call-of-duty-warzone-cheaters\">banned<\/a> by gaming companies who employ anti-cheat systems and researchers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"simple-image simple-image--m-b\" data-component=\"SimpleImage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"simple-image__img\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1617203433633-screen-shot-2021-03-31-at-91518-am.png\" width=\"634\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-03-31 at 9.15.18 AM.png\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>Many popular cheats require users to disable anti-virus programs and give the cheating software the highest security privileges on the cheater&#8217;s computer in order to remain undetected by anti-cheating software. This is a golden opportunity for malware, like the kind revealed in Activision&#8217;s report. With those security features disabled, cheaters might not see the red flags that warn them that the application they downloaded is actually malware.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"34\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes down to it, the dependencies for a &#8216;genuine&#8217; cheat to work are the same as those needed by most malware tools to successfully execute. System protections need to be bypassed or disabled, and privileges need to be escalated to allow the program to run correctly and\/or establish persistence,&#8221; the Activision researchers wrote in the report. &#8220;While this method is rather simplistic, it is ultimately a social engineering technique that leverages the willingness of its target (players that want to cheat) to voluntarily lower their security protections and ignore warnings about running potentially malicious software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-component=\"QuoteBlock\" class=\"abc__quote abc__quote--blockquote\" readability=\"11.339449541284\">\n<p><strong>Do you reverse engineer and develop cheats for games? Or do you work on anti-cheat engines? We\u2019d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, lorenzofb on Wickr, OTR chat at lorenzofb@jabber.ccc.de, or email <a href=\"mailto:lorenzofb@vice.com\">lorenzofb@vice.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>The developers of the malware advertised it on hacking forums as an &#8220;effective method&#8221; and as \u201csome nice bait for your first malware project.\u201d The hackers even published videos on YouTube that show a tutorial on how to use the malware, as well as videos promoting the malware as an &#8220;undetected cheat for <em>COD WARZONE<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"26.318518518519\"><\/p>\n<p>Targeting <em>Warzone <\/em>gamers makes sense as it&#8217;s a free game played by millions of people. There are also thousands of cheaters, who routinely get banned. In February, Activision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/7k9m5a\/call-of-duty-warzone-bans-more-than-60000-cheaters\">banned more than 60,000 cheaters<\/a>, and in September the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/3azg9n\/activision-bans-20000-call-of-duty-warzone-cheaters\">banned around 20,000 cheaters<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-image\" data-component=\"ImageBlock\">\n<div class=\"body-image__img\">\n<div><picture class=\"responsive-image lazyloader--lazy lazyloader--lowres\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1617203471439-screen-shot-2021-03-31-at-91016-am.png?resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1617203471439-screen-shot-2021-03-31-at-91016-am.png?resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1617203471439-screen-shot-2021-03-31-at-91016-am.png?resize=20:*\"><img class=\"responsive-image__img\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-03-31 at 9.10.16 AM.png\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"28.156996587031\"><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time hackers try to take advantage of the demand for cheats to hack computers. On Wednesday, cybersecurity company Cisco Talos <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/2021\/03\/cheating-cheater-how-adversaries-are.html#more\">published a report<\/a> on another malware hidden inside a cheat application. 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