Pirated Games Come with a Side of Amatera Stealer

Last Updated: 2026-07-20T16:00:07Z

What’s Happening

Malwarebytes is reporting on a new infostealer campaign using pirated games (shocker) as a watering hole.

What’s notable about this campaign is the continued use of Etherhiding for second-stage loading. We’re going to be talking a lot about Etherhiding in the next couple of weeks.

Some other fun malware analysis in the post as well for those interested.

Actions

Don’t pirate games! Don’t let your employees pirate games! Pro tip: if you do VPN posture checks, disallowing Steam is a gigantic risk reducer.

Otherwise, review the IOCs in the Malwarebytes post. We’re adding them to our MISP as well.