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This is why I don’t download game mods. Another backdoor has been found, this time in a popular modular for City Skylines 2 by paradox games. Checkout what happened in this video.

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This mod had some clever tricks to avoid detection from Antivir scanner. Not sure how deep and complex the Steam Workshop antivir scanner goes (if any). Hard to say if they would have found and prevented it. However, all antivir and other scanner software learned from this and now every malware using this technique could be detected instantly. At least in theory.

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Steam has some basic scans, but nothing special. This kind of thing happened before, with mods and even games.

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I would assume so. Did this happen in Steam Workshop?

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Yes. Apparently there were enough mods like this, that someone made a list to unsubscribe from them:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2749608338

Also, this time it’s the first Cities Skyline, I don’t know of any other games, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

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