Over the weekend, I received this unsolicited message from an acquaintance on Steam:
1 free game for new users!
Take the game you want https://t.co/{redacted}
Fortunately, other friends on Steam were quick to publicly warn others about potentially hacked accounts spamming dubious messages to anyone (if not all) in their network. I was reading these warnings hours before receiving a sample of the spam message to my own account.
A shallow online search reveals that this campaign has been going on since mid-March of this year.
Because it’s quite low-profile, not a lot were able to dig deeper into it. We’ll attempt to do that here.
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