Wallpaper Engine is now a vector of cyber attacks and Steam account stealers, it might even still other kinds of personal information on your PC if you aren’t careful too. Everything is fun and games until the paid wallpaper application hides some very peculiar user contributions that run as an executable program and steal everything from you. Curiously enough this is happening with anime related wallpapers, and the person who is behind it was very clever on how they disguised everything even behind risque anime references. If there’s people like furries in cybersecurity as the first example on who not to mess with, anime fans come second.
Wallpaper Engine is an attack vector
If you don’t have it, you are safe, if you have it then you are also probably safe because the files that have been affected are very specific. All of this has been done through the community side of the application, as an user has uploaded malicious anime wallpapers that run as executable files to yoink away your Steam credentials. However, this is nothing new as the program already tells you to be very careful with the things you download from the Steam mod community.
It is crazy, but there has been many attacks happening with Steam, and its definitely a very common attack vector used by malicious hackers and AI bros who just want some free money. Wallpaper Engine is a cool toy to play with however, but it is safe to say that you really should pay attention to the initial warning you get when booting the program. There’s a lot of things that could go wrong from downloading a single file, so perhaps very with the comments in community posts before downloading anything spicy. As long as you remain smart on the internet, nothing bad will happen with Wallpaper Engine.
