That’s not analyzing the code. Also almost assuredly steam does that. Finally that wouldn’t catch this since it was a back door, as long as the attacker didn’t use it it would not be detected by any automated means.
That’s not analyzing the code. Also almost assuredly steam does that. Finally that wouldn’t catch this since it was a back door, as long as the attacker didn’t use it it would not be detected by any automated means.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s called cloaking and you are right that it’s not easy to find which is why you have to trip the payload with varied approaches. Reverse engineers generally are tipped off by suspicious code artifacts then start diving in. I guess the lesson here is that people really overestimated steam’s capabilities at keeping out bad stuff and you should definitely never install any game that you’re not familiar with.