{"id":197765,"date":"2017-02-07T18:34:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=197765"},"modified":"2017-02-07T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:35:19","slug":"warning-steam-profile-hack-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197765-warning-steam-profile-hack-alert.html","title":{"rendered":"Warning &#8211; Steam profile hack alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A moderator on the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Steam\/comments\/5skfg4\/warning_regarding_a_steam_profile_related_exploit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam subreddit<\/a><\/strong> has warned\u00a0about\u00a0a new cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting profile pages on\u00a0Valve&#8217;s\u00a0PC marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteamDB\/status\/828977125025787904\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0confirmed the\u00a0existence of\u00a0the vulnerability and referred readers to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/forum\/292\/why-an-xss-exploit-on-steamcommunitycom-is-scary\/\" target=\"_blank\">two-year-old post<\/a><\/strong> explaining\u00a0the kinds of attacks that might be launched.<\/p>\n<p>SteamDB said an XSS attack may be used to\u00a0sell\u00a0and buy\u00a0market items using your Steam Market funds, post comments, promote group members to officers, and vote on Greenlight items.<\/p>\n<p>However, another\u00a0subreddit mod warned that the vulnerability extends beyond Steam.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability can reportedly be\u00a0exploited to redirect you to any non-Steam page, such as\u00a0a fake\u00a0login page to phish your username and password.<\/p>\n<p>An attacker can also manipulate elements on the page.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, viewing someone&#8217;s\u00a0profile page, or your activity feed, on the desktop or mobile versions of Steam can trigger an attack.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid falling victim, mods said community members must not click on profile links or any suspicious links, and disable JavaScript in their\u00a0browser&#8217;s options.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been affected, you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change your Steam Account password.<\/li>\n<li>Enable Mobile Authenticator.<\/li>\n<li>If the Authenticator is activated, deauthorise other computers on Steam Guard, then restart your modem.<\/li>\n<li>Scan your system with a malware scanner and anti-virus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197159-new-pc-horror-game-set-in-the-free-state-coming-to-steam.html\">New PC horror game set in the Free State coming to Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam users beware &#8211; a new cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting profile pages has been discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[32118,3602,18208],"class_list":["post-197765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-security","tag-cross-site-scripting-xss-attack","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197771,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197765\/revisions\/197771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}