Gaming mods, cheat engines are spreading Trojan malware and planting backdoors Mods and cheat systems for games are being exploited to deploy information-stealing malware.

This Skyrim mod enables everything, everywhere, all at once Skyrim mod creates a handy, in-game cheat engine, allowing you to instantly spawn anything, anywhere, whenever you want, using a single ...

In context: Apparently, cheat software can be used for more than just cheating against other players. Someone has used Cheat Engine to force Doom Eternal into a third-person mode.

For gamers who want to try modding safely, this article talks about one of the most popular mod menus, Terror, which they can play around with in GTA 5.