CYBERSECURITYTRACKER
TRACKING6,506 stories in this site build1,309 vulnerability news stories in this site build
Permanent story citation

A rigged game: ScarCruft compromises gaming platform in a supply-chain attack

This page keeps the story as Cybersecurity Tracker first published it. If the tracker later corrects it, the correction appears below the original and never replaces it.

Back to newsStory 6133

As cited

Copy frozen at (site build).

threat intel

A rigged game: ScarCruft compromises gaming platform in a supply-chain attack

ESET researchers documented a supply-chain attack by the ScarCruft advanced persistent threat (APT) group targeting the Yanbian region through compromised Windows and Android games delivering backdoors. The attack leveraged gaming platforms as a vector to distribute malicious code to end users in a specific geographic area.

Why it matters: Organizations and end users in the Yanbian region face backdoor compromise through seemingly legitimate gaming downloads; practitioners should review gaming platform defenses and monitor for ScarCruft indicators of compromise (IOCs) targeting this region.

Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Correction

Correction recorded as of .

threat intel

A rigged game: ScarCruft compromises gaming platform in a supply-chain attack

ESET researchers documented a supply-chain attack by the ScarCruft advanced persistent threat (APT) group targeting the Yanbian region through compromised Windows and Android games delivering backdoors. The attack leveraged gaming platforms as a vector to distribute malicious code to end users in a specific geographic area.

Why it matters: Organizations and end users in the Yanbian region face backdoor compromise through seemingly legitimate gaming downloads; practitioners should review gaming platform defenses and monitor for ScarCruft indicators of compromise (IOCs) targeting this region.

VendorsMicrosoftGoogle
Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Glossary