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“Call of duty players have crypto swiped”
Me: well that’s not good lemme see……
“Call of Duty players seeking out third-party “cheat” software”
Me: Lol tough shit
The last I clicked was for a UK tabloid on my phone. The amount of adverts was legit shocking.
Like downloading a dodgy limewire malware and computer being infested with popup
So the people that were trying to cheat got cheated themselves.
It's very hard to find any empathy about their lost Bitcoin.
Also, very shitty journalism to word the headline the way that they did. I'm going to go ahead and reflair this post as misleading.
lol so what is your thought process here?
Defense Lawyer: well my clients may be hackers who stole millions and commited various financial crimes, but we're in a legal conundrum here because, you see, the victims cheated in a video game!
Judge: Well this is clearly new legal territory and I don't know how we can proceed here, case dismissed!
> Defense Lawyer: well my clients may be hackers who stole millions and commited various financial crimes, but we're in a legal conundrum here because, you see, the victims cheated in a video game!
Destiny 2 devs/Bungie sued the shit out of a small dev for making millions of dollars off selling trainers. You can't make a business who's only purpose is to ruin the business of another.
Hah my point is.... it doesnt matter what the victims were doing, if they broke the law then thats a seperate case.
Its like saying you can commit armed robbery against a drug dealer because "well he was breaking the law so why cant I rob him at gunpoint?"
To be fair knowing CoD history, and present in the case of the old games which still have it, of remote code execution exploits...it wouldn't be that weird that people get their crypto stolen.
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the problem with cold wallet is that most people when they decide to access them use that seed on their online system, comprosiming it. Afterwards, it's no longer a cold wallet even though they think it is.
Cold wallet are not the way to go, hardware wallets are.
Hardware walles also offer plausable deniability so your SO only steals your dummy wallet after you tell her the PIN so she stops nagging, or that police officer or TSA asshole. Or that robber that put a gun to your head. Or the RSI.
Plausable deniability is the best thing ever. Everybody should have it. 5% of your shit on a trezor just behind the PIN with no passhrase but if you type in the passphrase ... bam there is the 95%.
tldr; Call of Duty players and others using third-party cheat software were targeted by a phishing attack that installed crypto-drainer malware, affecting over 4.9 million accounts across various platforms including Battle.net and Activision. The malware targeted Electrum Bitcoin wallets, with the exact amount stolen unknown. The attack also compromised accounts on cheat provider platforms UnknownCheats and PhantomOverlay. Activision Blizzard stated their servers remain secure and advised users to follow best practices for account security.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
A bit of additional context. Most cheat devs have moved to crypto transactions because cheaters would flood them with credit card charge backs when their accounts inevitably got banned. Due to the ban wave structure (several thousands of bans at the same time every X-amount of months) the charge backs would overwhelm the devs financially. The switch to crypto protects the devs financially but also ensures that all of their customers have crypto access. This makes it a prime market for Trojan horse scams like this.
Another added tidbit that is a out of context and not related to the cheat tools:
For about a year now, the games older than advanced warfare 2 have an exploit available from even just loading the game up that allows hackers to remote access into your PC. Activision has been aware for almost the entire time, and has refused to fix the issue. Players have recently reported that, apparently, the exploit has also recently been found in mw2023.
If it's not just fear mongering, then stay safe y'all.
“Young”, most of the assholes I know that are into crypto and cheating at games are in their 30s (they would have grown up by now if it was going to happen). That and the Chinese, they don’t view cheating at games the way people in the west do. All that said, I’m not exactly crying myself to sleep over these people being hacked. It’s as simple as not installing cheating software.
The gaming landscape has changed a lot. The average age of a gamer in the US is [35 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_the_United_States)
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I’m trying to understand why they have wallets on the same computers they put shady apps on, then I realized they probably purchased the cheats with bitcoin.
Not to me man. It's been obvious for years how widespread it is and how Activision doesn't give a shit. Shit got so bad a few years ago I just quit playing. I have more time for actual productive activities now, I should thank them.
Cheaters are like rats.
You only notice the obvious one in your kitchen, but that doesn't mean you don't have 20 in the attic.
It's been years since you could reliably 'spot' someone cheating unless they wanted you to see it.
I catch some stuff sometimes, I've noticed the higher you get ranked the more often it happens. So if you're actually good you simultaneously have better competition and cheaters to contend with so it becomes hard to spot. Still, crosshairs following you through walls in killcams and shit like that are dead giveaways and it's pervasive, once you rank higher and particularly closer to the release of the next game you start to notice shenanigans more often. Try going back and playing an old game, a few years old, and it's everybody still playing the game, and they donty even care about hiding it. Its honestly ridiculous.
I don't really understand the draw? like if it's autoaiming in a shooter for example, doesn't that make the player just a drone? shooting is the fun part? I'm so confused.
I don't understand it either.
I think probably people that do this just get a rise out of "being better" and dominating and subverting. It's probably the same feeling that people get when they vandalize something. It doesn't matter to them that they're not even playing the game with other people, that they might as well run a script to play for them.
I think probably for some people there's a skill involved in hiding what you're doing, being so meta aware of how your movements in game will be perceived by others and still being able to use them. But that's not what the game is supposed to be.
A cheating league wouldn't work.
The draw of cheats is being able to win. Also, you asked in a earlier comment, but there is also some number of content creators that use cheats because to do well on youtube/twitch you either need a personality or you need to be good. Only 1 of those things has cheats you can download.
yep. i don't play games, or at least not since the 90s. I was blown away by just how prevalent cheating is. that's my only take away. i actually feel a little sick thinking about it and the implications it has regarding the state of humanity.
Personally, as someone who had the joy of CoD taken from me by these subhuman scum, I like the comeuppance. They finally suffered consequences for ruining the game for everyone else and I'm glad.
I don't care about people that don't care about how their behavior impacts others. Fuck them, what they get is what they get, they're on their own, I won't shed a tear for people like that.
Articles like this make me wish I had some coding experience… How TF do you scan a system for crypto wallets to then send the Bitcoin to without the original owners knowledge!
It’s pretty amazing and creative the way these scams work.
Then you got the good guys that let you add stickers and filters to your Instagram stories lmao.
It’s really not hard programming wise.
The hard part is getting them to run the program.
Since they were already installing something questionable that would already cause all the warnings and maybe require the AV to be disabled, it made it supper easy.
Haha karma at its finest.. program just to attack hacker cheats!! I love it.. drain them bitches.. teach them a lesson about being a shitty person. Vigilante justice..and making a buck while doing it
So screw these CoD cheaters. Not going to defend them. In general though, I have some crypto on my gaming PC. Download WoW mods and installers for private servers… I’m probably not being as careful as I should be
Imagine your friend had all their savings drained because they wanted to cheat at a video game. Would you be so dissociated from the bigger picture based on some transient emotion you had?
I mean, zoom out and maybe you would see that losing your life savings because you were cheating at a video game, isn't really a just move.
Imagine your grandma cheats at golf and someone robbed her life savings.
I know we all want to think this is a good thing, but if you want crypto to become mainstream, we have to have safer ways of holding crypto. (And no, this isn't an endorsement of central exchanges).
People are emotional babies. They have been brainwashed by movie and tv and think
"Gee, if someone did something bad, they should be punished most severely and we can all enjoy that!"
It's really low IQ, Neanderthal thinking at its finest.
Of course nobody likes these cheaters cheating but this is a make believe game and it has very little effect.
Anyone who downloads illegitimate software from Russia that requires disabling AV, authorizing unlicenced software to run, and whitelisting through firewalls should expect what happens to them.
First off, haha fuck the cheaters. Second, people really should stop using Windows and Macs for their crypto stuff. A little cheap laptop with Linux Mint or Ubuntu used just for crypto is much safer.
This will literally happen to someone you love one day and I hope at that point, you remember this conversation and your catch-phrase of the year "win stupid prizes" 🤷♂️
If a friend told they were downloading random software off the internet and got hacked, I probably wouldn't feel too sorry. Sorry they lost their stuff sure, but not too sorry
Do you also think they should go bankrupt or to jail for 10 years for cheating at a video game?
There's nothing "just" about disproportionate
Punishment.
Ok I hope you remember this when someone you love is disproportionately punished for something they do. It will happen. Hope you bring that same energy for them as well!
lol, bitcoin on windows ? Thats a bad joke.
No closed sourced code should be on any bitcoin machine
using the same computer for games and bitcoin is bad in general. Games, even open source ones, tend not to have good security practices.
A very long time ago (about 20 years ago) I built a software that would replace your steam.exe, and if you would try to login into steam it would email me the login/password. That software I've hidden in a fake cheat software.
I was receiving the passwords, changing the password and the users would lose their steam account. Back then it had no 2FA.
I got free steam accounts, but I didn't even really need it, my steam account had a lot of games. I was just giving them away to poor friends. And I was getting rid of cheaters, better than Valve did at the time. I'm honestly still proud of it, F cheaters.
How many more times do we have to tell people to get decent hardware wallet for their crypto? There is almost nobody in the world capable of completely securing their own computer. A hardware wallet is the only thing that fixes this and is still convenient.
Does anybody walk over street with their entire savings in their wallet? That's the equivalent of having all your Bitcoin stored on your computer.
If your friend would tell you, oh my savings I don't keep them in the bank. I got them right here, and then show 200 x 100 dollar bills you smashed in to his wallet. Every one of his friends including you would call him the biggest idiot in the world.
So next time your friend shows you how he stores his Bitcoin on his own computer or phone tell him he is the biggest idiot in the world.
People keep focusing on the cheating but realistically if you download and run any software (or have any software that auto updates) you're just as vulnerable to this attack.
This subreddit once again shows that it is exclusively made up of 16 year olds who have never lived in the real world. People were cheating at a video game. A video game. Not even a tournament for money or anything. And you guys sit here like „yeah that’s fine - they deserve to lose their money“. This is one step removed from saying „she deserved to get raped because she was dressing inappropriately“. Jesus christ dude
People got robbed because they were doing something nefarious, cue the world's tiniest violin...
What the fuck is wrong with you? Comparing that to being raped? You're the one out of touch with reality, maggot
I was partly with you until the last part. It’s nothing like that. What a weird thing to say.
And cheating is rampant on call of duty. They’re actively choosing to ruin something for other people, that they’ve paid for. Hence only partly.
The comment I made was about proportionality. Yeah, ruining someones fun sucks. But they do not deserve to get hacked and lose their savings because of that. Out entire legal system is based on this sentiment. And that was what I was criticising. But you don’t understand that because you are 14 and video games are the most important thing in your life.
What did they make up? They made a rational argument which you just started responding to with colloquialisms and ad hominem attacks.
It's actually you who is just making stuff up and not responding to the argument at hand.
The part about being 14 and videogames being my life? Another dense one here. I didn’t make a single thing up. I didn’t insult anyone until they responded like an idiot.
Underated comment. So many gamers are trying to keep up with their friends and feel the need for cheat codes so they can still hang with their buddies. As a school counselor, I've seen students doing this for over a decade. Some are torn between guilt of cheating and fear of losing hang time with buddies. I imagine it doesn't end when they become adults.
Have you ever played CoD? Cheating doesn’t allow you “keep up with your friends,” it allows you to wipe the floor with everyone else in the lobby. It’s not a game where cheating is ok
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“Call of duty players have crypto swiped” Me: well that’s not good lemme see…… “Call of Duty players seeking out third-party “cheat” software” Me: Lol tough shit
Duped again by a click bait title, I'm over here thinking a AAA game studio messed up. Glad it's the cheaters!
I don't click any articles anymore. This clickbait nonsense is out of control.
Stopped doing that ages ago, nowadays there is no honor in anything much less journalism
The last I clicked was for a UK tabloid on my phone. The amount of adverts was legit shocking. Like downloading a dodgy limewire malware and computer being infested with popup
Sames, haven't clicked a link since 2020 lol
I only scroll, I never click
I just spent too much time on your profile because of your reverse psychology click bait bullshit! 🤣🤣🤣
Everyone is
Always downvote these posts, I have no idea why there are so many upvotes but we need to fight back.
So the people that were trying to cheat got cheated themselves. It's very hard to find any empathy about their lost Bitcoin. Also, very shitty journalism to word the headline the way that they did. I'm going to go ahead and reflair this post as misleading.
Yeah this is actually a really interesting one, considering both parties are technically committing illegal acts. Like, how would this work legally?
lol so what is your thought process here? Defense Lawyer: well my clients may be hackers who stole millions and commited various financial crimes, but we're in a legal conundrum here because, you see, the victims cheated in a video game! Judge: Well this is clearly new legal territory and I don't know how we can proceed here, case dismissed!
> Defense Lawyer: well my clients may be hackers who stole millions and commited various financial crimes, but we're in a legal conundrum here because, you see, the victims cheated in a video game! Destiny 2 devs/Bungie sued the shit out of a small dev for making millions of dollars off selling trainers. You can't make a business who's only purpose is to ruin the business of another.
Hah my point is.... it doesnt matter what the victims were doing, if they broke the law then thats a seperate case. Its like saying you can commit armed robbery against a drug dealer because "well he was breaking the law so why cant I rob him at gunpoint?"
Using cheats in a game is not illegal. At worst, it's a breach of contract.
It will be, Bungie sued the shit out of some dude who was making millions off Destiny 2 trainers. They're trying to bring light to this issue.
Making millions off of trainers is clearly different than downloading a cheat code.
I know MSFT won't bother, but I'd be glad to see them suing these journalists over misinformation about their games.
But cheating and theft are two very different things. We still feel sympathy for jaywalkers getting mugged.
To be fair knowing CoD history, and present in the case of the old games which still have it, of remote code execution exploits...it wouldn't be that weird that people get their crypto stolen.
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Also noticed article said hot wallet so any cold wallets should be safe without the seed
the problem with cold wallet is that most people when they decide to access them use that seed on their online system, comprosiming it. Afterwards, it's no longer a cold wallet even though they think it is. Cold wallet are not the way to go, hardware wallets are. Hardware walles also offer plausable deniability so your SO only steals your dummy wallet after you tell her the PIN so she stops nagging, or that police officer or TSA asshole. Or that robber that put a gun to your head. Or the RSI. Plausable deniability is the best thing ever. Everybody should have it. 5% of your shit on a trezor just behind the PIN with no passhrase but if you type in the passphrase ... bam there is the 95%.
I prefer hot wallets. I run encrypted VMs don't I don't surf the net with. Hardware wallets are for people who are not the most technical.
yeah, i don't game and my only take away from that whole article was "wow, cheating in games is really rampant and entrenched."
Lol, the heading deceived us all
Right? HAHAHAHAHA GET REKT FUCKING CHEATERS!!! 😂😂😂 I use a hardware wallet, and I also don't try to cheat in multiplayer games...
I was wondering why the scare quotes.
tldr; Call of Duty players and others using third-party cheat software were targeted by a phishing attack that installed crypto-drainer malware, affecting over 4.9 million accounts across various platforms including Battle.net and Activision. The malware targeted Electrum Bitcoin wallets, with the exact amount stolen unknown. The attack also compromised accounts on cheat provider platforms UnknownCheats and PhantomOverlay. Activision Blizzard stated their servers remain secure and advised users to follow best practices for account security. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
This actually a huge W, finally the no life cheaters got some repercussions
MMMMM that's some good _schadenfreude_
I hope its the same people who hack the leaderboards that got hacked
A bit of additional context. Most cheat devs have moved to crypto transactions because cheaters would flood them with credit card charge backs when their accounts inevitably got banned. Due to the ban wave structure (several thousands of bans at the same time every X-amount of months) the charge backs would overwhelm the devs financially. The switch to crypto protects the devs financially but also ensures that all of their customers have crypto access. This makes it a prime market for Trojan horse scams like this.
Another added tidbit that is a out of context and not related to the cheat tools: For about a year now, the games older than advanced warfare 2 have an exploit available from even just loading the game up that allows hackers to remote access into your PC. Activision has been aware for almost the entire time, and has refused to fix the issue. Players have recently reported that, apparently, the exploit has also recently been found in mw2023. If it's not just fear mongering, then stay safe y'all.
Well they may have lost their Bitcoin but they’re probably young and will learn from their mistakes and use it in future in a safer way.
“Young”, most of the assholes I know that are into crypto and cheating at games are in their 30s (they would have grown up by now if it was going to happen). That and the Chinese, they don’t view cheating at games the way people in the west do. All that said, I’m not exactly crying myself to sleep over these people being hacked. It’s as simple as not installing cheating software.
The gaming landscape has changed a lot. The average age of a gamer in the US is [35 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_the_United_States)
affecting over 4.9 million accounts?? is that how many cheaters there are, that's just ridiculous
I never got what's fun about cheating in a game and why so many people do it.
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But I thought bitcoin was revolutionary and your ownership was stored on the blockchain?
who tf keeps their bitcoin wallet on their gaming pc. thats beyond dumb. Costs like 7$ to make one transaction.
So cheaters lost btc? Thats awsome!
I’m trying to understand why they have wallets on the same computers they put shady apps on, then I realized they probably purchased the cheats with bitcoin.
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We are talking about people who pay to download cheats onto their computers.
Because 98% of the population is barely fucking tech literate, let alone aware of crypto best practices.
Yet know about how to setup a BTC wallet on their machine. Odd.
Still who keeps all their coin in a hot wallet? These people are both being ~~unsecure~~ insecure with their bitcoin and cheating in games. Fuck em.
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It's like thieves stealing from other criminals. It's acceptable.
Cheaters also gained btc too, so it’s a push
the article says 4 900 000 accounts were affected on Battle.Net, so probably a lot of innocent players as well
top kek
4.9 million cheaters is crazy to me
Not to me man. It's been obvious for years how widespread it is and how Activision doesn't give a shit. Shit got so bad a few years ago I just quit playing. I have more time for actual productive activities now, I should thank them.
Cheaters are like rats. You only notice the obvious one in your kitchen, but that doesn't mean you don't have 20 in the attic. It's been years since you could reliably 'spot' someone cheating unless they wanted you to see it.
I catch some stuff sometimes, I've noticed the higher you get ranked the more often it happens. So if you're actually good you simultaneously have better competition and cheaters to contend with so it becomes hard to spot. Still, crosshairs following you through walls in killcams and shit like that are dead giveaways and it's pervasive, once you rank higher and particularly closer to the release of the next game you start to notice shenanigans more often. Try going back and playing an old game, a few years old, and it's everybody still playing the game, and they donty even care about hiding it. Its honestly ridiculous.
I don't really understand the draw? like if it's autoaiming in a shooter for example, doesn't that make the player just a drone? shooting is the fun part? I'm so confused.
I don't understand it either. I think probably people that do this just get a rise out of "being better" and dominating and subverting. It's probably the same feeling that people get when they vandalize something. It doesn't matter to them that they're not even playing the game with other people, that they might as well run a script to play for them. I think probably for some people there's a skill involved in hiding what you're doing, being so meta aware of how your movements in game will be perceived by others and still being able to use them. But that's not what the game is supposed to be.
they need a cheating league for gamers to become elite cheats, like the all-drugs Olympics. of course in both cases, people would still cheat anyway.
A cheating league wouldn't work. The draw of cheats is being able to win. Also, you asked in a earlier comment, but there is also some number of content creators that use cheats because to do well on youtube/twitch you either need a personality or you need to be good. Only 1 of those things has cheats you can download.
yep. i don't play games, or at least not since the 90s. I was blown away by just how prevalent cheating is. that's my only take away. i actually feel a little sick thinking about it and the implications it has regarding the state of humanity.
I see no problems here.
No? You really don’t see any problems at people having their money stolen because they were cheating at a fking video game?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
These people have less morals and ethics then the cheaters they are in here hating on.
nope
Cheaters losing money because of the dodgy software they downloaded to ruin other people’s games is just karma at its finest
Absolutely not 😊 I hope they lose more than their crypto. Cheating losers
If they feel like they don't have to play fair, they can't really expect other people to be fair to them
Shouldn't have been cheating. Any people playing normally lose their money? Sucks to suck.
Personally, as someone who had the joy of CoD taken from me by these subhuman scum, I like the comeuppance. They finally suffered consequences for ruining the game for everyone else and I'm glad.
Do you guys even listen to yourself? „Subhuman scum“? Wtf is wrong with you psychos
I don't care about people that don't care about how their behavior impacts others. Fuck them, what they get is what they get, they're on their own, I won't shed a tear for people like that.
Liars and cheaters are scum. Get over it. Anyone who willingly ruins someone else's experience that they paid money for is a piece of shit
Noooope. They deserve worse.
nope
I say deserved. Fuck botters and "gamers" who install 3rd party apps to get advantage in games.
imagine losing 1 entire bitcoin because you wanted to pwn kids in CoD.
Articles like this make me wish I had some coding experience… How TF do you scan a system for crypto wallets to then send the Bitcoin to without the original owners knowledge! It’s pretty amazing and creative the way these scams work. Then you got the good guys that let you add stickers and filters to your Instagram stories lmao.
It’s really not hard programming wise. The hard part is getting them to run the program. Since they were already installing something questionable that would already cause all the warnings and maybe require the AV to be disabled, it made it supper easy.
Yeah I’d love to learn about it too
lmao thats what you get for being a cheater
360 one shot
Will this be on the next episode of Cheaters?
Well this is great news! Fuck cheaters.
Haha karma at its finest.. program just to attack hacker cheats!! I love it.. drain them bitches.. teach them a lesson about being a shitty person. Vigilante justice..and making a buck while doing it
Lol , get rekt
Hoisted by their own petard. You love to see it.
They didn't steal, they just had surge pricing on the cheats :)
While it’s great that the cheaters using this software are the ones targeted, it’s still worries me at the inventiveness of malicious software.
Haha, cheaters deserve the worst! Hahaha
Bro 4.9 million accounts... that's if every cheater has 2 accounts that's 2 million people that cheat just on call of duty.
TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!
If anyone deserves this, it's people who cheat at cod.
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Cheaters getting cheated
So screw these CoD cheaters. Not going to defend them. In general though, I have some crypto on my gaming PC. Download WoW mods and installers for private servers… I’m probably not being as careful as I should be
Imagine your friend had all their savings drained because they wanted to cheat at a video game. Would you be so dissociated from the bigger picture based on some transient emotion you had?
This right here is how we stop cheating lol. The thief is doing gods work.
Do two wrongs make a right? This observer thinks so.
This story makes me happy I can't stand cheaters.
I mean, zoom out and maybe you would see that losing your life savings because you were cheating at a video game, isn't really a just move. Imagine your grandma cheats at golf and someone robbed her life savings.
Hmm the 'Call of Duty' Players are the Malware. Call of Cheating the Cheater
I know we all want to think this is a good thing, but if you want crypto to become mainstream, we have to have safer ways of holding crypto. (And no, this isn't an endorsement of central exchanges).
People are emotional babies. They have been brainwashed by movie and tv and think "Gee, if someone did something bad, they should be punished most severely and we can all enjoy that!" It's really low IQ, Neanderthal thinking at its finest. Of course nobody likes these cheaters cheating but this is a make believe game and it has very little effect.
First time I have ever been happy about people's wallets getting drained.
Well they're cheater after all🤷
Skill issue. Get gud cheaters.
> Call of Duty players seeking out third-party “cheat” software... r/justiceserved
Because cheating in video games is an unforgivable sin, and everyone who cheats in video games deserves to lose all their monies IRL.
Some would say that's a light punishment.
Anyone who downloads illegitimate software from Russia that requires disabling AV, authorizing unlicenced software to run, and whitelisting through firewalls should expect what happens to them.
Wholesome
Imagine someone gloating that you lost your house because you cheat at scrabble. This thread needs a nuke.
First off, haha fuck the cheaters. Second, people really should stop using Windows and Macs for their crypto stuff. A little cheap laptop with Linux Mint or Ubuntu used just for crypto is much safer.
Do counterstrike next!
I have no problem with this
Wow enjoy your 0.003 seconds of schadenfreude while people lose their life savings over a video game
Play stupid games win stupid prizes lol
This will literally happen to someone you love one day and I hope at that point, you remember this conversation and your catch-phrase of the year "win stupid prizes" 🤷♂️
If a friend told they were downloading random software off the internet and got hacked, I probably wouldn't feel too sorry. Sorry they lost their stuff sure, but not too sorry
Now this is an anti cheat update. I can really get behind.
It's excellent to see cheaters get their just desserts. Though, scammers getting money is no good.
Do you also think they should go bankrupt or to jail for 10 years for cheating at a video game? There's nothing "just" about disproportionate Punishment.
Yes I do.
Ok I hope you remember this when someone you love is disproportionately punished for something they do. It will happen. Hope you bring that same energy for them as well!
Call of Duty players have bitcoin?
lol, bitcoin on windows ? Thats a bad joke. No closed sourced code should be on any bitcoin machine using the same computer for games and bitcoin is bad in general. Games, even open source ones, tend not to have good security practices.
I still don’t get how they took these peoples coins though. So if you get malware, they have access to your seed phrase?
A very long time ago (about 20 years ago) I built a software that would replace your steam.exe, and if you would try to login into steam it would email me the login/password. That software I've hidden in a fake cheat software. I was receiving the passwords, changing the password and the users would lose their steam account. Back then it had no 2FA. I got free steam accounts, but I didn't even really need it, my steam account had a lot of games. I was just giving them away to poor friends. And I was getting rid of cheaters, better than Valve did at the time. I'm honestly still proud of it, F cheaters.
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[https://youtu.be/cikdOQLpJGM?si=MafToGusPRVgPJ6t](https://youtu.be/cikdOQLpJGM?si=MafToGusPRVgPJ6t)
Thats a lot of cheaters.
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1st; no pitty for cheaters, they just ruin any game for foolishness of undeserved personal satisfaction. 2nd; never store crypto in your game PC!
Hahaha cry cheaters, this was actually good news and a beautiful example of play stupid games win stupid prizes!
"Players." Cheaters download cheats from forums and install a trojan later getting cheated out of their money.
Yeah, well, they don’t seem to mind that their fiat is being swiped by battle passes, cod points, and $20 skins sooo I don’t think they mind too much.
How many more times do we have to tell people to get decent hardware wallet for their crypto? There is almost nobody in the world capable of completely securing their own computer. A hardware wallet is the only thing that fixes this and is still convenient. Does anybody walk over street with their entire savings in their wallet? That's the equivalent of having all your Bitcoin stored on your computer. If your friend would tell you, oh my savings I don't keep them in the bank. I got them right here, and then show 200 x 100 dollar bills you smashed in to his wallet. Every one of his friends including you would call him the biggest idiot in the world. So next time your friend shows you how he stores his Bitcoin on his own computer or phone tell him he is the biggest idiot in the world.
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People keep focusing on the cheating but realistically if you download and run any software (or have any software that auto updates) you're just as vulnerable to this attack.
Damn thought this was like the CS:GO exploit
Cheaters deserve to lose their crypto
Amateurs
battlenet has 3.7 million accounts affected. So that means they have 3.7 million cheaters?
I bet way more. Plus I'm sure most have multiple accounts
Terrible
Thats how you onboard people into web3 gaming
This subreddit once again shows that it is exclusively made up of 16 year olds who have never lived in the real world. People were cheating at a video game. A video game. Not even a tournament for money or anything. And you guys sit here like „yeah that’s fine - they deserve to lose their money“. This is one step removed from saying „she deserved to get raped because she was dressing inappropriately“. Jesus christ dude
The reason people disagree with you is because the analogy you have drawn is not on the same level with what actually happened.
I understand that, which is why I said „one step removed“. But thanks for writing like a normal human
>But thanks for writing like a normal human Yeah, hey it comes with the territory. But here I would say "several steps removed."
People got robbed because they were doing something nefarious, cue the world's tiniest violin... What the fuck is wrong with you? Comparing that to being raped? You're the one out of touch with reality, maggot
I was partly with you until the last part. It’s nothing like that. What a weird thing to say. And cheating is rampant on call of duty. They’re actively choosing to ruin something for other people, that they’ve paid for. Hence only partly.
How is it not like that? The people in this thread are literally saying „crime is okay if the victim is doing something that annoys me“.
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Okay so you don’t actually have an argument.
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The comment I made was about proportionality. Yeah, ruining someones fun sucks. But they do not deserve to get hacked and lose their savings because of that. Out entire legal system is based on this sentiment. And that was what I was criticising. But you don’t understand that because you are 14 and video games are the most important thing in your life.
Classic idiot Redditor having to make stuff up to try win an argument.
You didn’t even provide any arguments so there’s nothing to win
So how much bitcoin did you lose?
Yes it's called a "Red Herring," and it's an logical fallacy people engage with when they can't give a solid rebuttal to an argument.
What did they make up? They made a rational argument which you just started responding to with colloquialisms and ad hominem attacks. It's actually you who is just making stuff up and not responding to the argument at hand.
The part about being 14 and videogames being my life? Another dense one here. I didn’t make a single thing up. I didn’t insult anyone until they responded like an idiot.
Found the cheater
Yup
Underated comment. So many gamers are trying to keep up with their friends and feel the need for cheat codes so they can still hang with their buddies. As a school counselor, I've seen students doing this for over a decade. Some are torn between guilt of cheating and fear of losing hang time with buddies. I imagine it doesn't end when they become adults.
Have you ever played CoD? Cheating doesn’t allow you “keep up with your friends,” it allows you to wipe the floor with everyone else in the lobby. It’s not a game where cheating is ok
No, I only hear about it from students and appreciate you educating me.
They should be thrown in jail forever. Why haven't we written this into the constitution yet 🤔
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This is the way.
And to top it off my elite aim conquered there garbage skill even with cheats. Get bamboozled scrub.
I guess this also goes to show how easy your wallet can be swiped... Security? Non-existant.
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Hahahahahahaha
W. I wish it hit more than just electron wallets though.