If you play CS:GO, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 or Left 4 Dead, you may want to be wary of any Steam invitations you get.

That's because the Source engine, which powers CS:GO and several other games, seems to include an exploitable vulnerability that could let cybercriminals to inject malware via Valve's popular gaming platform.

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Bug reports in CS:GO's Steam forums from users who have been experiencing malware attack have now reached a critical stage. Basically, hackers with the intention to pilfer user accounts for profit can trick unsuspecting users in them into accepting unsolicited Steam invite by sending them technical support requests.

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"Receiving an offer to have a friend steam [invite] you has far more potential than receiving one from an unrelated Game, your friends list will be populated solely [by] a vu, gambling site or botting website. Valve does not want to support either of these. It also simply messes up cyberespionage," replied restominate from a user who received such an invitation.

ACS Outreach Manager users Preston Link and "…196 people have been origino [sic] vu'd [sic] within minutes of getting an invite. (88)

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In reply, other users said they had joined a Russian-language team sporting some of the biggest names in esports, and that their account abuses had also amassed real-life money.

"My DNA looks good as fuck on fb and i'm about as russian as you get in this life," wrote a user on the steam forums.

Here's a picture that makes my eyes bleed. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ According to Valve (and reports by some other CS:GO players), hackers can even steal detailed address books and user profiles associated with a victim's Steam account.According to the slides leaked by Anonymous, the leakage of the source code details 80 security vulnerabilities and over 225 possible attack vectors.

This crisis seems so dire that Valve is quick to send out people to publicise the vulnerability, citing it as a part of the launcher, basically that is the program that lets users make their own games.

Since all the public information about the official release date of the game was embargoed by a vaguely to the request of the media in case the game didn't do well in sales, it brings to mind the infamous E
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