Steam discovered one of its game had a background mining software in it!

[AlexTF.CCN]

A game on Steam was background mining monero - Find out which game and how Steam noticed! https://cryptocoin.news/cryptocurrency/game-over-crypto-mining-software-found-in-steam-game-18211/

Seems like you can't even trust games now!! :/

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[cryptovally01]

There are many games are appeared as fraud and scam. They will promised you for some coin but some later they stole your wallet. So be careful and stay safe with your wallet.

[Dina Alina]

Now it is happening very bad in this market! Scams are like everywhere. Unfortunately now these scams started to enter into the games as well. Now it is becoming very difficult to keep trust on anything in this market. Hoping that, proper measures will be taken to control these scams.

[pehuk]

It’s really disappointing. This type of scams are not appreciable. It really breaks everyone’s heart. Hope necessary steps will be taken against it.

[yhan2x]

if steam discover a game with a mining software its good to hear for the gamer that are using cryptos.

[Vatimphady]

It is very unfortunate that scams are now everywhere. They have started to enter into the games as well. Now it is becoming difficult to keep trust on anything in this market. Hoping that, proper measures will be taken to control these scams.

[dhemasm]

It is really bad news for Crypto, this certainly damages the crypto image to others who do not know crypto. When people play games for fun, they are betrayed by scams like this. I hope this is immediately investigated and also maybe not just this game that is embedded with the background-mining. Let's hope that this problem will be resolved ASAP!

[badjoke]

that news shocked me . this is so wrong but great idea at the same time . if you let your customers know then you can use this idea for great purposes .

[Emence]

One of the largest gaming platforms, Steam, was recently a victim of attacks by scammers. The steam users noticed that a game named abstractism was consuming enormous amount of CPU and GPU. Later it was found out that the users were unknowingly mining Monero.

[kryptqnick]

It's really a shame they don't keep track on such things. I think Steam is supposed to protect its customers. I mean, when they buy the games, they pay already for quality and safety. I don't know how many people were playing Abstraction (it is not available now and there's almost no info online), but Steam is too famous to fall victim of such scandalous events. Valve is worth billions of dollars. Is it hard to hire good programmers and not shaken the trust of people buying stuff on Steam?
At the same time, though, maybe this mining is a smart type, so the player usually doesn't even suffer much from it.

[Yudhisthir]

Background mining scripts are getting smarter everyday and like viruses and malware, mining blockers too need to update frequently to counter newer scripts that attempt to use users processing power without consent to mine for them. Owners of such script should be penalized for theft.

[siddartha1492]

Yes,it seems the first ever case of a Steam game involved in crypto jacking players' computers. Steam has since removed the game, but the main reason they removed is not because of the miner but because it was imitating some of the Team Fortress game items.

[tokenjob]

Many games appeared as scams. They proposed for some coin but appeared as fraud at the end and then the anyone can lost their wallet. So to keep wallet safe everyone need to be aware.

[cryptohopes]

This is just not good for anyone. People are getting irritated by these kind of scams. If scams are not get controlled sooner it will lose the peoples interest in taking part in ICO and games. These two area was the most attractive ones but now it is like a threat.

[babygun]

First there were hidden miners on sites (and even more and more), and now on games. I guess there will be always people that try to abuse things...

[JamescrypTrader]

It's really sad. I wonder what just happening in this market. Scams are taking place in every way. Now it started to expand it's wing into games now. I am afraid of the fact of trusting anything in this market. Hope scams will be controlled in the near future.

[BitcoinNewbie15]

Background mining scripts are getting smarter everyday and like viruses and malware, mining blockers too need to update frequently to counter newer scripts that attempt to use users processing power without consent to mine for them. Owners of such script should be penalized for theft.

I can easily see background mining taking place in many different places in the future. Having it happen with a game was inevitable and just the beginning. Even some websites you visit will have background mining too. I can easily see this becoming like some sort of virus. You'll need to make sure now that when you download something, even if it is from a reputable source, make sure that there are no background mining processes running. I am really surprised that steam didn't catch this in the first place.

[Brequir]

This should be set as an example for other fraudulent games and apps that mine coins through their users' devices. The unfair activity occurred from the game developers' end as they clearly didn't mention anywhere about the mining thing otherwise they would have still been there on Steam's platform.

[ivanleon]

I heard that for six months the game is secretly mining cryptocurrency on users ' computers, despite the negative reviews it has not been removed. In General, it's cool, now you should not trust any incomprehensible indie projects.

[WolfRisk]

This is a devastating news to witness. If people starts to scam us like this, then the people will lose their trust in the market. Serious steps needs to be taken against them or else this will lead to the doom of the crypto world.