“First of all - there are no tools used to reveal any sensitive information of any customer who has legitimately purchased our products… ” The head of Flight Sim Labs, Lefteris Kalamaras, responded to concerned pilots on the company’s forums, claiming that the Reddit post was made by someone with a pirated copy. “I'm a technical person by nature,” he told us, “and I was keen to understand why exactly the installation package was triggering antivirus alerts so often.” is touted as a 'Chrome Password Dump' tool, which seems to work - particularly as the installer would typically run with Administrative rights (UAC prompts) on Windows Vista and above." there seems to be a file called 'test.exe' included.
He then posted a notice for other players. Reddit user crankyrecursion examined his copy of the installer “simply out of curiousity” and found the embedded malware. But an installer for one plane, the A320-X (an airbus commonly used by EasyJet or American Airlines) was triggering anti-virus alerts for some players. Or other tools, like one that lets you control the lights on your aircraft. The head of the company describes the file as “DRM”.įlight Sim Labs usually make planes you can download for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, like the Concorde-X.
But they say that to claim the file "indiscriminately dumps Chrome passwords" is "not correct information", adding that the malware was “only extracted temporarily” and that it was targeted at pirates. The company in question, Flight Sim Labs, have since replaced the dirty jet with a clean one. The malicious file is called ‘test.exe’ and it is designed to extract passwords from the Chrome web browser, according to the user who discovered it. Update: The developers now say they were hunting for one single pirate.Ī company who makes add-ons for Flight Simulator X included malware in one of their downloadable jets, players have alleged.
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