Warning!!!! Your accounts are being taken over by hackers!!!!

[Antvasima]

Hello.

Our forum is under attack by people who post what appear to be crypto Telegram links, but they likely contain viruses that infect the computers of those who click them.

Do NOT under any circumstances click on these links, or quote the messages that contain them.

If you see such posts, quickly report them to our rule-violation reports thread, so our staff members can delete them.

Here is what they look like:



According to our available information, it appears that the hackers are using programs to brute force access the accounts of members with weak passwords.

Everybody please make sure that you have sufficiently strong passwords that use a mixture of letters, numbers, and symbols, and use at least 17 to 18 of them in combination, and also always use two-factor authentication if possible.

I extremely strongly recommend that everybody who read this follow these instructions to get stronger passwords and two-factor authentication, and inform all other members here that they know about it as well.

 

[DemonGodMitchAubin]

Let's banish them to the Shadow Realm

 

[LIFE_OF_KING]

Damn, I clicked on those links about 3 times

 

[InfiniteDay]

The real horror here is that Ant has 29 pings and 3 unread conversations

 

[Deceived3596]

Damn, I clicked on those links about 3 times

 

[azontr]

Damn, I clicked on those links about 3 times

Brazilo moment

 

[Maitreya12]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think the accounts that have been hacked have also been relatively inactive correct?

Don’t click on the links for the love of god but you may be ok (for now) if you’re still an active user even if you did happen to click on it.

 

[Deceived3596]

Also @Antvasima wouldn't it be good to make it so this thread shows up in the news feeds of everything as well?

Just to be sure that people don't accidentally miss out on this thread.

 

[SuperStar]

Damn, I clicked on those links about 3 times

Why bro

 

[LIFE_OF_KING]

I suppose Ima change my gmail from here

 

[Deceived3596]

I suppose Ima change my gmail from here

Genuine question, are you trolling?

Why in the **** would you click those links when they're obviously scammer links .

 

[Quantu]

Damn, I really wanted to see why Goku negs fiction

 

[Maitreya12]

Don’t ever underestimate people’s ability to screw themselves over

 

[Artorimachi_Meteoraft]

Let's banish them to the Shadow Realm

me we see them

 

[LIFE_OF_KING]

Genuine question, are you trolling?

Why in the **** would you click those links when they're obviously scammer links .

Bro people make mistakes sometime
Sometime up to three times in a row

 

[Deceived3596]

You have stunlocked me into complete confusion and hopelessness for your entire foreseeable future. May god have mercy on your soul.

 

[First_Witch]

Guess we entered the Ratrace against scammers now. A shame

 

[Braking]

Im smarter than them no worry

 

[Antvasima]

Damn, I clicked on those links about 3 times

Use as many antivirus scans as possible then.

 

[Antvasima]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think the accounts that have been hacked have also been relatively inactive correct?

Don’t click on the links for the love of god but you may be ok (for now) if you’re still an active user even if you did happen to click on it.

No, at least one of them had been active in a normal manner just hours previously.

 

[TheKingStrategist13]

Good god Ant has a zillion things in his inbox
I knew he was busy, but this put's it into perspective...
Either way

Also @Antvasima wouldn't it be good to make it so this thread shows up in the news feeds of everything as well?

Just to be sure that people don't accidentally miss out on this thread.

I agree with this sentiment. It would be helpful in spreading awareness of the ongoing situation.

 

[Maitreya12]

Ah then mb

@LIFE_OF_KING guess you’re just screwed bud

 

[Antvasima]

Also @Antvasima wouldn't it be good to make it so this thread shows up in the news feeds of everything as well?

Just to be sure that people don't accidentally miss out on this thread.

I have been busy instructing our forum system manager how to extend our wiki administrator rights so they can now delete and moderate posts in ALL of our sub-forums, as, with all due respect to Promestein and Ryukama, it turned necessary to cover that security risk given the latest developments here.

 

[Antvasima]

Guess we entered the Ratrace against scammers now. A shame

Yes, see above. If our forum system administrator did not give moderating rights over all sub-forums to FC/OC and Joke Battles administrators as well, please send me a PM message about it later.

 

[LIFE_OF_KING]

You have stunlocked me into complete confusion and hopelessness for your entire foreseeable future. May god have mercy on your soul.

I knew it was something fake and scammer since the begin man. It just happened

 

[Antvasima]

Ah then mb

@LIFE_OF_KING guess you’re just screwed bud

Not necessarily. I was just speculating based on how this phenomenom was spreading to more accounts here, and good antivirus programs might fix the problem.

 

[First_Witch]

Yes, see above. If our forum system administrator did not give moderating rights over all sub-forums to FC/OC and Joke Battles administrators as well, please send me a PM message about it later.

Eh? Not quite computing that order

 

[Dereck03]

Got it.

 

[Shmooply]

Good to know Discord users and VSBattles members share a singular brain cell.

 

[The_Axiom_of_Virgo]

I've seen those scam bots engage in staged comment threads all over YouTube, it's pretty awful they've contaminated the forum too. If possible I recommend peeps download a spam detector/blocker or just avoid the external forum completely until this situation gets resolved.

 

[Deceived3596]

United we stand or divided we fall, for as we are the last bastion of hope in our darkened times. Don't lose hope yet brave soldiers, we will fight against the scam bot menace to teeth and nail, until dust settles, until freedom is regained!!!!!.

 

[Maitreya12]

We give our Hearts!!

 

[Artorimachi_Meteoraft]

Time to pump lead into these scam bots

 

[azontr]

Yall wild

 

[TheKingStrategist13]

I'm not as Crazy as these guy's, but I will say that for every 1,000 Bot's that may come our way, we're willing to respond with 10,000 Members. Smth smth uh, this is a Grand Order funne Fate Reference.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Agreed 100%, please always make sure to keep accounts secure and do not click on dangerous URLs and especially do not give anyone log in information's or passwords if they link you to what look like disguised log in forms but URLs do not exactly match the traditional log in URLs otherwise seen on those web pages/forms.

 

[KLOL506]

Damn, the YouTube bots have invaded our wiki

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

I am curious why medeus can’t use her dragon powers to make the scam bots go away?

I do Spam clean their posts and ban them. But they always come back with more accounts and of course there's the usage of VPNs and extra Email Addresses to get around those barriers

 

[Antvasima]

@Artorimachi_Meteoraft

Stop spamming and derailing please.

 

[Artorimachi_Meteoraft]

Alright ant