A streamer battling stage 4 cancer has been scammed to the tune of around $30,000 by a Steam game that concealed cryptodrain malware, and while the game has been removed, it remained online for around three weeks with the malware infecting its code.
As spotted by ResetEra user Atheerios, streamer rastaland, who is suffering from a stage 4 sarcoma (which means the cancer has metastasized to other parts of his body), was tricked into downloading a Steam demo by the name of BlockBlasters, which contained a cryptodrainer.
If you're not sure what a cryptodrainer is, it's essentially a malicious piece of software that drains cryptocurrency from users' wallets (hence the name). As rastaland himself says, the malware drained him for "over $32,000" in creator fees earned through crypto platform pump.fun.
You can see rastaland realizing what's happened in this clip posted by X user vx-underground. Honestly, I'd recommend against watching it because it's completely heartbreaking, but if you'd like to get all your ducks in a row, it's there for you to watch.
As reported by cyber defense blog G Data, BlockBlasters seemingly didn't contain any malicious code until August 30th, when the cryptodrainer in question was added to the game....
