A new Minecraft report says that a malicious campaign the target mods to steal of personal information. There are also reason the Minecraft community still thriving nowadays, despite the game being over decade old. Looking at the creative freedom, there are also so much you can do. Installing mods can help make the experience even more than exciting as they provide more depth to the gameplay.
Looking at the case players can take extra caution when it comes to downloading mods. Looking at th investigation by Check Point Research, there have been a large scale, malicious campaign which targets Minecraft mods, which can also lead to the installs these getting their Windows devices infected.
Minecraft Players risk getting their Personal data stolen from fake mods
Check Point Research discovery highlight the malicious repositories distributing malware conducted by the Stargazers Ghost Network, which uses the Minecraft modding in as the GitHub to reach a large audience of victims.
Looking at the report that the malware distributed impersonated Oringo and Tuani, which is also a scripyts or cheats. Both at the first and second stages which are developed in Java and can also be executed if the Minecraft runtime is installed on the host machine.
This files also pull off a multi stage attack to compromise system abd steal personal data from victims. Even Check Point Research has also been working since March 2025 to track these malicious GitHub repositories. These are also not legitimate but there would be undetected by all antivirus engines across VirusTotal, as it will highly targeted for Minecraft users.
The worst case scenario can be assuming that the end up running in one system, and the report provided a long list of all the data which could be stolen ranging from browser logins cryptocurrency wallets, Private messages through Discord and many more.
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