Hacked Steam accounts spreading Remote Access Trojan

[Hoss]

Probably of interest to everyone, but since I'm following Civ 6 I thought I'd post it here

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacked-steam-accounts-spreading-remote-access-trojan/

"According to the post, the hacked accounts were being used to SPAM suspicious links using Steam chat. These chat messages would tell the recipient to go to videomeo.pw to watch a video"

 

[Lord Yanaek]

As often with computer security issues, the most problematic security breach is located in the "Chair to Keyboard Interface".

Nobody should ever blindly click a link, especially if it come from someone you've never heard of. Of course, if one of your friend's account have been hacked, it's slightly worse. However, even when it comes from a friend, a message, chat, e-mail, whatever that gives me a link without some text to clearly explain why they send me a link goes to /dev/null (and i don't consider "watch this, it's fun" a clear text). My family finally understood that i don't even read those forwarded mails with links to "cool pics".

As for "software update", when i get some "update your flash plugin" message, i open a new tab and head to adobe's download page. This alone will avoid you more viruses than any anti malware software.