“It’s-a-me, malware!” A long-running fan game based on Nintendo’s iconic plumber is reportedly also an attack vector for scammers.
A popular PC fan game inspired by Nintendo’s Super Mario franchise is reportedly rife with malware that can hijack users’ crypto wallets and even quietly install crypto mining software.
Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs reports that a legitimate installer for the fan game Super Mario 3: Mario Forever, also known as Super Mario Forever, comes with an additional payload overflowing with malicious software that can steal data from infected computers and load them up with resource-intensive crypto mining software that runs secretly in the background.
