It looks like it was one malicious item on the workshop, not necessarily the whole workshop. However, that one malicious item will uploaded your credentials to the People Playground Workshop. So they remedied it temporarily by disabling the entire workshop, including all legit mods, to prevent user credentials from being uploaded.
EDIT: I assume they are asking everyone who logged in during the 21st to run antivirus because it was trojan. Originally a legit mod that turned malicious after an update and all subscribers got the “updated” virus.
Yeah, that’s how I took it, but the developer acted like every system that was on the workshop was infected. They never listed a mod that caused the issue and instead just issued a blanket statement of this is what happened. It’s very weird.
It was closer to a worm. The virus infected local mods, and uploaded itself to the workshop alongside your credentials.
I guess that means any workshop creator who gets infected would further spread the virus because the virus automatically updated the creator’s workshop items with the infection.
It looks like it was one malicious item on the workshop, not necessarily the whole workshop. However, that one malicious item will uploaded your credentials to the People Playground Workshop. So they remedied it temporarily by disabling the entire workshop, including all legit mods, to prevent user credentials from being uploaded.
EDIT: I assume they are asking everyone who logged in during the 21st to run antivirus because it was trojan. Originally a legit mod that turned malicious after an update and all subscribers got the “updated” virus.
Yeah, that’s how I took it, but the developer acted like every system that was on the workshop was infected. They never listed a mod that caused the issue and instead just issued a blanket statement of this is what happened. It’s very weird.
Interesting…
I was incorrect.
It was closer to a worm. The virus infected local mods, and uploaded itself to the workshop alongside your credentials.
I guess that means any workshop creator who gets infected would further spread the virus because the virus automatically updated the creator’s workshop items with the infection.