Gaming mods, cheat engines are spreading Trojan malware and planting backdoors Mods and cheat systems for games are being exploited to deploy information-stealing malware.

This Skyrim mod enables everything, everywhere, all at once Skyrim mod creates a handy, in-game cheat engine, allowing you to instantly spawn anything, anywhere, whenever you want, using a single ...

In context: Apparently, cheat software can be used for more than just cheating against other players. Someone has used Cheat Engine to force Doom Eternal into a third-person mode.

Unfortunately, mod menus represent a significant step up in hackers' ability to do things like this. Previously, hackers in GTA Online were limited to things like money drops and spawning in rare ...