2026-09-24 03:41 UTC
I don’t own this game or project or whatever it is, but I’m confused. How does a mod getting hacked on a workshop make it so every player that’s on the workshop has a virus?
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@Peffse@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 04:03
It looks like it was one malicious item on the workshop, not necessarily the whole workshop. However, that one malicious item will uploaded your credentials to the People Playground Workshop. So they remedied it temporarily by disabling the entire workshop, including all legit mods, to prevent user credentials from being uploaded.
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@I_Jedi@lemmy.today 2026-09-24 05:33
Patient Zero downloads the virus. Virus embeds itself in any mods Patient Zero uploaded to the Workshop. Anyone who subscribes to any of Patient Zero’s mods auto-updates with the virus. When these people launch the game, the mods they uploaded are also infected the virus. And so on and so on until everyone is infected.