Valve let some schmuck put a crypto drainer (Block Blasters) on their store.
Previously we made a post about a cancer patient being a victim of a malicious Steam game. It is a cryptodrainer masquerading as a free-to-play video game.
Based on reports and conversations occurring online, this is the malicious video game:
I'm not video game developer, but this file looks strange. Why does this video game contain a .bat file that looks for your browser credentials and crypto wallets?
dawg, OSINT nerds found the guy who drained the cancer bro. hes an immigrant on a VISA from argentina currently living in miami, florida, USA
the OSINT nerds reported him to ICE
Seems really bad that they could just let this happen, no safeguards against it?
Seems really bad that they could just let this happen, no safeguards against it?
Do you have any idea how much effort it would be to actually test every game/game update at this point? It's one of the most obvious weaknesses of just allowing anything on your platform(along with massive content dilution)
BlockBlasters is a 2D platformer/shooter game developed by Genesis Interactive. The game was released on July 31, 2025, which garnered hundreds of positive reviews. But on August 30, 2025, this month-old game released a patch (Build 19799326) that contains files exhibiting multiple malicious behaviors, which were flagged by G DATA MXDR.
In 2025, there has been a rise in malware infections in games being released on the popular games platform Steam. The perhaps most notable case is that of PirateFi[A], a Free-to-Play game that comes with an information stealing malware. The most recent malware infection in a game was Chemia(b), an early access title on Steam, which was compromised by a threat actor known as EncryptHub through the injection of malicious binaries. These threat actors bypassed initial security screening from Valve which allowed the deployment of malicious patches and infected multiple users of the platform. Now we observed a similar case in another Steam-released game called BlockBlasters, further highlighting the ongoing risks to players.
Apparently they reported it a week ago but Valve just sat on the report until they got brigaded yesterday
The cryptodrainer, which masqueraded as a legitimate video game on Steam, was identified by @GDATA
over a week ago. It was reported to Steam. However, no action was taken.
Unless Valve changes, this might be it for indie devs on Steam, why take a chance on a random dev you don't know you can trust?
Last edited by Roguey on September 22nd, 2025, 12:35, edited 1 time in total.
This site goes into more detail, apparently it started as a legitimate game and then malware was patched in after a month https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2025 ... ds-malware
Unless Valve changes, this might be it for indie devs on Steam, why take a chance on a random dev you don't know you can trust?
very strong suspicion that this will prompt Valve to require indie devs to give Valve source access + perform verifiable builds on Valve's servers
nearly all of this can be eliminated with AI(and manual review of flagged submissions), but it actually needs access to the source code
don't be surprised if they just shut submissions down for a week or two tho