A new multi-stage malware campaign is targeting Minecraft users with a Java-based malware that employs a distribution-as-service (DaaS) offering called Stargazers Ghost Network.
“The malware was impersonating Oringo and Taunahi, which are ‘Scripts and macros tools’ (aka cheats). Both the first and second stages are developed in Java and can only be executed if the Minecraft runtime is installed on the host machine.”
The Minecraft runtime?
Oh God is prism on the list? Or modernith mods?
This is a slow-news-day story and affects neither you nor anyone you care about.
The malware was impersonating Oringo and Taunahi
As usual, these hacks target idiots using cheats and aimbots, downloading them from a fake repository on Github directly, which is no different than downloading an exe. 99.99% of Minecraft mods are fine, so is Prism, so is Modrinth.
Oh that’s a relief,thank you ♡ I was really worried
I spend my time downloading exe on my PC everything is fine :D it’s mostly when trying to cheat stuff that you get problems
The fact that those people didn’t even decompile the JAR files is amazing.
You realize that like 0.1% if the population even knows what that means, much less would bother to do it? We’re talking about the best selling video game of all time.
Considering that the ENTIRE Hypixel SkyBlock cheating community warns about these things (and there are websites that tell you if a JAR file may be compromised), it is impressive.
