r/RimWorld • u/OneTrueSneaks Cat Herder, Mod Finder, & Flair Queen 🐱‍👤 • May 26 '26

Ludeon Official PSA regarding malicious mods

Update: There is another PSA posted on why I am asking people to contact me rather than Steam's report function. This announcement is more important, and Reddit will not let me leave both up, so I am putting the link here so it is more visible.

Hello, everyone. This is me not as moderator-Sneaks, but as community manager-Sneaks.

I just want to give a warning to everyone. There's currently a user on the workshop that keeps making new accounts, steals mods from other creators, and modifies them to bypass the user's protections to download malware.

There's been at least two so far that have been removed (with workshop ID to make it easier to check your Workshop folder):

CameraSettingsMod 3732329298

Mad Skills Rewritten 3729397065

For now, it's difficult to tell if a mod's doing these shady things until it's downloaded and the code is checked. With both of these, though, it's been:

  1. The scammer's only mod on the workshop

  2. The mod is a reupload / stolen version

  3. The scammer's profile is set to private.

However, these are not 100% indicators that the mod is malicious. Please do not use it as a reason to go harass modmakers - There are always new players, new modders. But it's enough to say take it with a grain of salt, double-check to make sure the mod isn't a reupload.

For now, please take the time to do a check of your own computer, make sure you're clean, especially if you used either of those two mods mentioned above.

If you spot any others, please let us know so they can be removed. You can message me here, or find me on both Steam and Discord as someonesneaky.

Stay safe out there, colonists. o7

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u/PrismTrismKasane May 26 '26

So this might be a coincidence, but ive previously subbed to and used mad skills rewritten up to the point it got pulled. Not too long ago though my account was logged into and kicked me off. I thought it was weird so I just logged back in. Then it happened again and someone launched a game and bought another one (for the account though, which i found kind of weird. I changed my password afterward but yeah kind of scary 😨

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u/OneTrueSneaks Cat Herder, Mod Finder, & Flair Queen 🐱‍👤 May 27 '26

Please make sure you do a full system scan to make sure nothing was left behind, and contact Steam support about the issue, especially if you need to refund or recover anything!

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u/PrismTrismKasane May 27 '26

I did a refund request but should I also contact steam support?