A new multi-stage malware campaign is targeting Minecraft users with a Java-based malware that employs a distribution-as-service (DaaS) offering called Stargazers Ghost Network.
“The malware was impersonating Oringo and Taunahi, which are ‘Scripts and macros tools’ (aka cheats). Both the first and second stages are developed in Java and can only be executed if the Minecraft runtime is installed on the host machine.”
This is a slow-news-day story and affects neither you nor anyone you care about.
As usual, these hacks target idiots using cheats and aimbots, downloading them from a fake repository on Github directly, which is no different than downloading an exe. 99.99% of Minecraft mods are fine, so is Prism, so is Modrinth.
Oh that’s a relief,thank you ♡ I was really worried
Me who uses these “cheats” (are they still cheats if there’s noone getting hurt?) in singleplayer:
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These are skyblock cheats, there’s absolutely no use for them in singleplayer
Phew, I’m save then 😅
What on earth would you need a cheat client for singleplayer? You already have full control of the game
Small qulity of live stuff. i.e. “Meteor client” allows me to put fireforks on a hotkey so I don’t have to keep them in the hotbar/offhand. I also like that it shows me the trajectory of my arrows or fireballs or that it can automate Totems from the inventory so i can keep my offhand free (again).
Just a lot of small stuff :)
Meteor client is a trusted one (pretty sure it’s open source, too.)
I spend my time downloading exe on my PC everything is fine :D it’s mostly when trying to cheat stuff that you get problems
The fact that those people didn’t even decompile the JAR files is amazing.
You realize that like 0.1% if the population even knows what that means, much less would bother to do it? We’re talking about the best selling video game of all time.
Considering that the ENTIRE Hypixel SkyBlock cheating community warns about these things (and there are websites that tell you if a JAR file may be compromised), it is impressive.