Hundreds of GitHub repositories seemingly offering “free game cheats” deliver malware, including the Vidar infostealer, Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) has found. While the identified malicious repositories already target “virtually every major online game title,” the security researchers estimate the true number “could be in the thousands”, they warned in a report published on March 17. They also found Reddit posts mentioning and promoting a game cheat for Counter-Strike 2 leading to a fake website that encourages the user to download and install Vidar 2.0. The campaigns delivering the infostealer start, like most typical cheat campaigns, in Discord chat rooms or Reddit communities dedicated to cheating in specific online games, said Acronis TRU. “In their simplest form, campaigns…