Online poker may have a genuinely nasty new “superuser” scandal on its hands. Several high-stakes online poker players have reported being targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack that allowed a cheater to secretly view their computer screens—and their hole cards—in real time.

The attacker is believed to have compromised third-party software used by high-volume online players to organize multiple poker tables, install hotkeys, and manage other aspects of their games.

Jurojin Poker, one of the software providers affected, acknowledged this week that an attacker was able to intermittently replace updates sent to a select group of users with tampered versions containing remote-access software.

“This was a highly targeted operation, not a mass attack,” Jurojin said. The company added that the attacker was a “known cheater” targeting specific high-stakes opponents with the aim of viewing their hole cards remotely.

A second popular poker-management program, IntuitiveTables, was also compromised, according to Jurojin and reports on the investigation. Neither company has been accused of knowingly participating in the scheme.

The malware was based on MeshCentral, legitimate remote-management software normally used by IT departments to access computers remotely.

Once installed, however, the hidden “Mesh Agent” could reportedly allow whoever controlled it to watch an infected player’s screen and operate the computer remotely. In an online poker game, that would provide an enormous advantage: the attacker could see an opponent’s face-down cards while the hand was being played.

Cybersecurity researcher “WolfSec0x0,” who first exposed the operation on X, initially identified between 10 and 30 affected computers across Europe, North America, and Oceania.

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