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07-05-2018, 04:47 AM
'Fortnite' cheaters get a lesson in karma via malware
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"Cheaters never win" and "if it's too good to be true, it probably is" are just a few maxims that come to mind with the news that PC Fortnite (https://mashable.com/category/fortnite/) players who may have tried to employ a certain cheat may have exposed themselves to some vicious malware.
SEE ALSO: Is 'Fortnite' addiction among young children actually a real problem? (https://mashable.com/2018/06/29/fortnite-addiction-young-children-real-issue/)
Andrew Sampson, CEO of game-streaming service Rainway, posted on the company's Medium blog (https://blog.rainway.io/how-we-discovered-a-virus-infecting-tens-of-thousands-of-fortnite-players-e5dd6fe1ff55) (via Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/02/fortnite-cheats-hide-malicious-adware/)) about the discovery of a flood of error reports on the company's servers. Those errors, it turns out, came from a downloadable hack for the ever-popular game (https://mashable.com/2018/06/20/fortnite-ios-100-million/) that was actually disguised malware. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/04/fortnite-malware-cheat-discovered/)
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"Cheaters never win" and "if it's too good to be true, it probably is" are just a few maxims that come to mind with the news that PC Fortnite (https://mashable.com/category/fortnite/) players who may have tried to employ a certain cheat may have exposed themselves to some vicious malware.
SEE ALSO: Is 'Fortnite' addiction among young children actually a real problem? (https://mashable.com/2018/06/29/fortnite-addiction-young-children-real-issue/)
Andrew Sampson, CEO of game-streaming service Rainway, posted on the company's Medium blog (https://blog.rainway.io/how-we-discovered-a-virus-infecting-tens-of-thousands-of-fortnite-players-e5dd6fe1ff55) (via Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/02/fortnite-cheats-hide-malicious-adware/)) about the discovery of a flood of error reports on the company's servers. Those errors, it turns out, came from a downloadable hack for the ever-popular game (https://mashable.com/2018/06/20/fortnite-ios-100-million/) that was actually disguised malware. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/04/fortnite-malware-cheat-discovered/)
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