Cracked Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive games infect gamers with miners www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

A large-scale malware campaign dubbed “StaryDobry” has been targeting gamers worldwide with trojanized versions of cracked games such as Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive, and Dyson Sphere Program.

These titles are top-rated games with hundreds of thousands of ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews on Steam, making them good targets for malicious activity.

It’s worth noting that a laced Beamng mod was reportedly used as the initial access vector for a hack at Disney in June 2024. According to Kaspersky, the StaryDobry campaign started in late December 2024 and ended on January 27, 2025. It mostly impacted users from Germany, Russia, Brazil, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.