Russians warned about the danger of adult games - viruses are downloaded to PCs through them

Those wishing to have a good time risk spending a lot of effort cleaning their PC afterwards.

Recently, cybersecurity specialists drew attention to a new malicious campaign. Kaspersky Lab reported that attackers were spreading a previously unknown "Trojan".

The virus, named Argamal, masquerades as adult games. Victims included users from various countries, including Brazil, Germany, and Vietnam. Russia accounts for about 38 percent of all detected cases of infection with this virus.

The infection mechanism itself is simple: first, the victim downloads an archive with an infected 18+ game, and after launching it, a malicious module is installed on the device. After waiting a few days, it downloads an additional "Trojan" — this virus allows attackers to gain wide capabilities for remote control of the affected device. They will be able to take screenshots, archive files and send them to their servers, control the cursor, and restart or shut down the system.

Kaspersky Lab specialists reported that infected files were primarily distributed through several websites that published screenshots of adult games and download links. Users who clicked on these links were redirected to the free file-sharing service PixelDrain, from which they downloaded the infected files. Cases of infection through games from torrent trackers were also registered:

After studying the technical information and comments in the code, researchers "with a moderate degree of confidence" suggested that Spanish-speaking people might have been behind the development of this virus.