Fake CS2 tournament streams used to steal crypto, Steam accounts

Threat actors are exploiting major Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) competitions, like IEM Katowice 2025 and PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, to defraud gamers and steal their Steam accounts and cryptocurrency. Although CS2 first launched 13 years ago, it still maintains a massive community of plays and an active professional competition landscape with multi-million rewards. Characteristically, earlier this month, CS2 achieved a new peak player count of over 1.7 million concurrent players on Steam. CS2 streamjacking campaign A malicious "Streamjacking" campaign was spotted by Bitdefender Labs, targeting the gaming community by impersonating popular CS2 players. The security firm warns that the threat actors impersonate professional CS2 players like s1mple, NiKo, and donk in live streams on YouTube, promoting fake CS2 skin and cryptocurrency giveaways. Fake YouTube CS2 livestream Source: Bitdefender The channels that promote these scams are hijacked legitimate YouTube accounts, which the scammers re ... Read full article.