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1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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Oh God is prism on the list? Or modernith mods?
This is a slow-news-day story and affects neither you nor anyone you care about.
As usual, these hacks target idiots using cheats and aimbots, downloading them from a fake repository on Github directly, which is no different than downloading an exe. 99.99% of Minecraft mods are fine, so is Prism, so is Modrinth.
The fact that those people didn't even decompile the JAR files is amazing.
You realize that like 0.1% if the population even knows what that means, much less would bother to do it? We're talking about the best selling video game of all time.
Considering that the ENTIRE Hypixel SkyBlock cheating community warns about these things (and there are websites that tell you if a JAR file may be compromised), it is impressive.