Steam Community Profiles abused as C2 network in new WordPress malware infection campaign
A new malware campaign is exploiting Steam Community profiles as a command-and-control network for infecting WordPress sites. Researchers from GoDaddy have identified nearly 2,000 compromised sites since July, where attackers embed malicious payloads in comments. The malware uses invisible Unicode characters to hide its true intent, ultimately infecting visitors' browsers with harmful JavaScript.
- ▪The malware campaign targets vulnerable WordPress websites and their visitors.
- ▪Attackers use Steam Community comments to hide malicious payloads.
- ▪GoDaddy has reported nearly 2,000 compromised WordPress sites since July 2025.
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| Original publisher | TechRadar |
| Canonical URL | https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/steam-community-profiles-abused-as-c2-network-in-new-wordpress-malware-infection-campaign |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:18:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T12:47:07.630Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T12:47:07.630Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | E-HhuznqipWk |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Pro Security Steam Community Profiles abused as C2 network in new WordPress malware infection campaign News By Sead Fadilpašić published 3 June 2026 A new cheeky malware campaign abuses the comment section When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Valve) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Malware hides payload in Steam Community commentsWordPress sites used to host backdoorsNearly 2,000 sites compromised since JulySecurity researchers from GoDaddy found a cheeky new malware campaign that used comments made by Steam Community accounts as…
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