Cyber: Not A Kids Game: From Roblox Mod To Compromising Your Company

Growing up I always wanted to play the newest and most exciting games, and for me it was FIFA, Zelda and Red Alert. For my kids today it’s Roblox, Minecraft, and Call of Duty.

I remember, it wasn’t easy to convince your parents to constantly pay for these new games, so you compromise or you look up in Google “Free FIFA 2003 download.”

While today I know it’s illegal, for most kids, it starts innocently. Your child wants to make Roblox run faster. Or unlock a feature. Or install a mod that their friends are using.

They search Google or YouTube, find a video titled “NEW Roblox FPS Booster 2025 - FREE,” click a Discord link, download a ZIP file, and double-click an executable called something like RobloxExecutor.exe.

But in the background, something far more serious just happened. That “mod” wasn’t a mod at all. It was infostealer malware.

The infection happened in your living room. The breach happens at your company. And neither you nor your child will notice anything until it’s too late.

This isn’t science fiction. It happens every day. According to threat intelligence research, gamers have become one of the largest and most reliable infection pools for infostealer malware.

One recent analysis found that over 40% of infostealer infections originate from gaming-related files, including cheats, mods, cracked games, and “performance boosters.”

From an attacker’s perspective, gamers are the perfect targets:

Most importantly: they are trained to execute untrusted code.

Source: BleepingComputer