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Sead Fadilpašić

Hackers are attacking Minecraft to push malware once again

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Hackers were seen, once again, using Minecraft to distribute infostealers among the gaming community, capable of hijacking cryptocurrency transactions, stealing Discord authentication tokens, as well as cookies and login data saved in browsers. 

According to cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender, unknown hackers managed to compromise several developer accounts on CurseForge and Bukkit. These are modding communities where Minecraft fans meet to build and share various mods and plugins for the popular sandbox game.

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