However, as NME reports, the modder’s downloads now number around 35,000, meaning that the devices of tens of thousands of gamers have potentially been infected.Ĭhaos had developed several forks – i.e., modified and reuploaded versions – of popular mods from well-known creators, including Harmony, Network Extensions and Traffic Manager: President Edition. Valve has reportedly yanked several of the mods that feed into the automatic updater and has banned Chaos’ most recent accounts. “We recommend in the strongest possible terms that you unsubscribe from all items published by this author and do not subscribe, download, or install any mods, from any source, that may be published by this individual in future,” according to the subreddit post.
The subreddit moderator who posted the warning on Saturday – kjmci – urged players to scrub their systems of anything published by Chaos. As well, the author reportedly poisoned other mods with malicious code that bogged down game-play, forcing players to download yet more tainted mods that Chaos had created as “solutions.”Īccording to a pinned post on the Cities: Skylines subreddit, some, but not all, of Chaos’ mods have been removed from the Steam Workshop, and the author’s accounts have been suspended. The author went on to similarly rework other popular mods, and he listed his Harmony redo as a core download: in other words, players would be forced to download it to get dependent mods to work.īut an automatic updater was subsequently discovered, hidden away in Chao’s Harmony version – an updater that enabled the modder to deliver malware to the devices of those who downloaded it.
It started last year, when Chaos launched a “redesigned” version of Harmony: a core framework project that most Cities: Skylines mods rely on to work. The modder, who goes by the handle Chaos as well as Holy Water, reportedly tucked an automatic updater into several mods that enabled the author to deliver malware to anybody who downloaded them. The developer of several popular mods for the Cities: Skylines city-building game has been banned after malware was discovered hidden in their wares.
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