‘Fortnite’ cheaters get a lesson in karma via malware

“Cheaters never win” and “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is” are just a few maxims that come to mind with the news that PC Fortnite players who may have tried to employ a certain cheat may have exposed themselves to some vicious malware.

Andrew Sampson, CEO of game-streaming service Rainway, posted on the company’s Medium blog (via Engadget) about the discovery of a flood of error reports on the company’s servers. Those errors, it turns out, came from a downloadable hack for the ever-popular game that was actually disguised malware. Read more…

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