We had a bit of security situation. Some of you may have noticed a user with the name Rainbow Crasher posted a game he had made in the media section of the forums. This game was bundled with a Trojan Horse virus (thanks to a Java security exploit) that allowed the intruder to hijack and view the victim's PC via remote desktop connection as well as log keystrokes. It seems to me that this individual posted the game to get an admin account, and that's exactly what he did. Tyro's computer was compromised and his account was breached. I had to close the site down to prevent him from doing further damage. He will return as a full admin once he gets his computer issues fixed, which moves me on to my next point. If you clicked on the game you may be infected as well. My recommendations for you are to make sure your antivirus is updated, and as well keeping Java and other programs patched. I would even uninstall Java if you do not actually need it. If you'd like some additional security tools to help Malwarebytes is a good place to start. As always, even though we are a small community we are not immune to these type of people and threats. Never allow any strange program to run on your PC, even if it's claimed to be a pony game. As far as I know, no user data was stolen from our forums. It appears the extent of the attack was deleting all staff accounts and modifying admin accounts details. Relatively speaking, we are quite lucky that's all that happened. We also cannot rule out that he may be targeting anyone who has played his game (for general passwords, credit card info, etc). The site has been reverted to as it was on July 22nd. Any activity made after that period will be gone. If you made an important thread or post that you would like to recover Ghan can help you recover this. I'm typing this on 3 hours of sleep so if you have any questions on stuff I missed or was not clear on feel free to ask.
Oh god it's so funny it hurts. So this is how it happened. Christ people, virus scan that stuff. Seriously. So...was the game any good?
As far as I remember, I never clicked that link. Coincidentally though, my computer has been acting weird for the past 2 days. I'm sure it's not related, but I keep seeing this when I open my files. Spoiler Dunno why, but I can't see preview pictures at all. They open just fine though. I'm too stupid to know what this is.
I'm so glad that I'm one of those people that are just in general paranoid and assume this stuff will happen to me. I saw the thread and all but you know, I obviously didn't click it. Thanks for saving the site from the bad man Mike
Hm that's quite strange. Could be something simple like a corrupt thumbnail cache, or something worse. Hard to tell...
Damn, I almost played that game. I had it loading but had to do something else. Glad everything is back.
And so the site was saved... But on a serious note, this virus would have caused serious damage. I feel Paranoid for some reason that another attack by the same person could happen. And with the accessibility of creating a new profile, he could strike the community here. I have heard about the game, but never understood about the virus attached about it until just then. Anyway, great job saving the site Mike. Kudos from me
The trojan isn't java-based, uninstalling Java won't help. Also, it isn't detected my Malwarebytes. It is, however, detected by Avast. So use that.
"Chill dude"? I'm sorry, but didn't he just pass out a virus and hijack an admin's account? Or is that just me in my little imaginary world?
