Valve has removed an indie game called Abstractism from its digital games marketplace Steam, for allegedly functioning as a covert crypto mining operation.
According to user complaints, the game (which was released by developer Okalo Union and publisher dead.team on March 15) was cryptojacking computers – i.e., surreptitiously using devices’ processing power (with the aid of malicious software embedded in the game) to mine cryptocurrency, thus causing computers to slow down and overheat.
As per a report by Motherboard, Valve has officially confirmed (via email) that the game has been removed from Steam. In addition, Valve has also banned the game’s developer and publisher from its video game platform.
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