THE FUSE

Cases where a player manages to cheat by getting unfair access to another person's cards is known as the "superuser" strategy, and it has popped up from time to time in the poker scene over the years. This most recent attack appears to have been a long-term campaign that may have seen millions of dollars stolen from across major online poker platforms. The Wired story claims that the hacker exploited third-party tools allowing people to run multiple poker games at once to install a malware program called MeshAgent on specific players' computers.