Heads up: New Malware spreading in Steam Chat!

I second the view above, watch yourselves.

i just got the same message a few minutes ago,i find it stupid that people fall for phishing links.....

Same happened to me, I opened it but didn't download the "update", obviously...

I'm glad I never have to worry about this stuff XD My friends list is always empty.

Friend of mine got hit by this. You can report a profile as "Suspected Hijacker" when you report a violation on their profile so I'd suggest doing so if any of your friends send you this. Might help them get their profile back faster, or at least shut down the phisherman.

Few of my friends got this. 1 and 2. When this happens, you are unable to log into your account (email and pass changed) and the hacker has full control over your steam inventory. My friend found out that his inventory was sold on a trading site for $70 USD.

Just saw this message from a hijacked friend. Constant vigilance!

Someone sent this to me as well. I can't tell if something disappeared form his inventory though.

Thank for the heads up. Hopefully this will reduce the future infected.

Happened to me once,trying to play a flash game in a shady website.

Good to know about this, thanks!

Apparently it grows very fast, better warn your steam friends about it!

Got one of them from someone too. Message seemed weird as the person in question is only on my friend list because they either won one of my GA's or I won one of theirs, unsure which. Anyway, we've never chatted besides that and it seemed very out of the blue.

This explains things.

I did open the link, didn't click on the flash player.

The only thing I do with pop-ups is close them. If I need to update something, I do it manually and/or from the official website.

Got one from a friend, thankfully didn't click it. Never thought something like this would eventually use Steam.

This isn't anything new... This has been going on for years with different exploits but the same method of spreading.

Your title is actually misleading.. yes it's pointing to a malware but the malware itself as nothing to do with Steam. In your case the phishing attempt is done thru Steam chat. A Steam malware would be something affecting Steam itself or working thru Steam, not the case here.

Looks like i'm going offline on my friends list for quite some time then.

luckily i have no friend

I got a message like this from one of my Steam friends today. I didn't click the link.

But I've seen the "update your flash player" message/malware on various sites. So this scam is nothing really new. But thanks for the heads up.

I got a chat message with some sort of suspicious link, but didn't click the link. Also changed my Steam password anyway, just in case...

(EDIT) The message I got was just like the one described in the OP pic.