Hackers Make Fake Cthulhu Website to Distribute Malware

Fake Cthulhu website spreads malware

Threat actors have made a fake ‘Cthulhu World ‘ play-to-earn community, this includes websites, social accounts, a medium developer site, and Discord groups to spread the Raccoon stealer, AsyncRAT, and Redline password stealing malware on innocent targets.

As play-to-earn communities have risen in popularity, threat actors and scammers constantly attack these new platforms for suspicious activities.

The same applies to a new malware distribution campaign found by cybersecurity expert “iamdeadlyz”, where hackers made an entire project to advertise a fake play-to-earn game known as Cthulhu World.

Hackers promote the fake project

To publicize the ‘project,’ hackers send direct messages to users on Twitter asking if they wish to perform a test of their new game. In return of testing and promoting the game, the hackers promise of rewarding in Ethereum.

When a user visits cthulhu-world.com site (currently down), users are welcomed with a well designed website, it includes information about the project and an interactive map of the game’s environment.

But, it is a fake site which is a copy of the original Al

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