Cheating Fortnite players are flooding the internet with malware

By Matt Hanson

Fortnite is currently one of the most popular games on the planet, which means it has inevitably attracted players who cheat at the game by using software. It now appears that pretty much all of those cheating apps contain malware.

The team behind Rainway, a game streaming service that lets you play your PC games remotely, noticed that there was an alarming growth in security alerts in its logs and decided to investigate further. It appeared that the common factor in this rise in security issues was people playing Fortnite with extra software to help them cheat at the game.

These apps can give players an unfair advantage by helping them aim faster, fire more rapidly and even slow down other players. While these cheaters, and the apps they run, can ruin people’s games, the fact that the apps may be spreading malware is much more serious.

Cheaters never prosper

In a blog post detailing how the Rainway team discovered a virus infecting “tens of thousands” of Fortnite players, CEO Andrew Sampson explained how the team was alerted to a huge number of calls to various ad platforms. Rainway doesn’t have ads on the service, so this …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming