: These archives typically contain Stealers (like RedLine or Lumma) designed to harvest your saved passwords, browser cookies, and session tokens for Discord or Google [2, 3].
: Riot Games delivers all official Valorant updates through the Riot Client , never via a .zip file hosted on third-party sites like MediaFire or Mega [1]. Red Flags to look for Valorant Updated.zip
: Stop the malware from sending your stolen data to the attacker's server. : These archives typically contain Stealers (like RedLine
: Many videos promoting these files have disabled or heavily bottled (fake) comments praising the "update" or "hack." What to do if you already opened it : Many videos promoting these files have disabled
: Use a reputable antivirus (like Malwarebytes or Windows Defender Offline) to remove the infection.
: Scammers often password-protect the file (e.g., password: 123 ) to prevent antivirus software from scanning the contents before you extract them.