The latest information we have When is GTA 6 coming out? It aims, as we told you, for the autumn of next year, so unless there is a surprise, we will still have to wait more than a year before we can start enjoying it. And those who are waiting for the version for the current generation of consoles, because if you want to play it on PC (like my case), the wait will be even longer, at least until mid-2026 (remember that with GTA V the period was almost two years) . Yes, at least a little over two years to add to the 9 that have already passed since GTA 5 arrived on PC.

This long wait explains phenomena like the one I told you about the day before yesterday expectations that have been created around the hypothetical release date of the highly anticipated second trailer. This “information” came from overanalyzing a video about GTA Online, combining the two license plate elements that were currently in the foreground. This gives us an idea of ​​the demand for information about GTA 6, which in turn reminds us of how it is expected to launch.

So like almost everything, There will always be people who try to take advantage of these circumstances., and although it is to be hoped that the vast majority of users will not fall into its traps, unfortunately there will always be someone who stumbles over the stone after all. Either out of ignorance or because illusions trump caution and common sense, and unfortunately we already know how these types of cases usually end.

So as we can read in SecurityBrief, Bitdefender has identified a fake GTA 6 beta advertising campaign. Specifically, these ads were found on a Facebook page announcing that the first 100 people to apply would get early access to the game’s beta. According to the investigation of the security company, the messages from the said page managed to spread mainly among European countries, including Spain.

As you may have already deduced, The goal was to get the user to download the executable, in this case hosted on Dropbox, which, when launched, simulates a GTA 6 beta installation, but actually infects the system. Once there, the options for criminals are diverse: they can steal information from it, gain remote access (RAT), launch a ransomware attack… all of course depending on the payload that gets into the computer after the malware is installed.