[pdntspa]

What's amazing to me is you have an entire modscene of young or amateur programmers uploading binary code to god-knows-where and this is the first time this sort of thing has happened (that I can recall)

What's the security like on Steam workshop? Or Nexusmods? Gaming and modding is still rife with lots of little "here download my exe from this forum post and give it a run please".

Pretty much every game I play modded ends up with some kind of support framework DLL that tons of other mods build from. I am amazed that that has still not really blown up in our faces here in 2023.

[CGamesPlay]

I think this goes to show how effective the trust we place in the social network is. These things don't happen immediately for every new game because mod spread through word of mouth (or forums, or server-to-player-to-server), and each community's moderators are there to take down any malicious payload that does get discovered.

[h2odragon]

Generally the misadventures have been limited to attacks against individuals in personal bitch fights, and overzealous copy protection / license enforcement schemes from paranoid (people selling Xplane planes forex).

There's a lot of hinky stuff out there that doesn't quite reach the level of "malware", just potential fun.

specialized "Visual Studio" extensions are worth looking hard at too.

[birracerveza]

>What's amazing to me is you have an entire modscene of young or amateur programmers uploading binary code to god-knows-where and this is the first time this sort of thing has happened (that I can recall)

Which is especially surprising considering the sheer insanity of Minecraft modders and hackers.

[throwaway290]

It's more amazing when seasoned devs do it all the time with their IDE plugins (VSC, etc) and it raises zero eyebrows.