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What a weekend (Discord Hack)
4 years ago
You know the 1 golden rule of the internet. DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! Well... it's a bit more varied than that, but what it means is that you gotta know better than blindly accept any links even if you trust someone.
I used to uphold that rule to my best ability. I always saw through suspicious e-mails, I also remember reacting to MSN hackersluts with the one thing they deserve: a massive block. However, yesterday, I was fooled on Discord, and I am past one of the most stressful afternoons, as well as mornings, as not only my Discord got compromised, forcing me to reset my password, put on 2 factor authentication to protect it better, as well
Meanwhile, my Youtube channel also got hijacked. Without a doubt, I think idiot would not describe me. A fellow furry got it to himself to investigate the link and test the virus on a Virtual machine. Not much info on that, other than the hacker used Nvidia's certificate to sign the "program". The other trick, unlike other scammers, it didn't use Discord Nitro as a promise, nor did it have a garbled up gibberish link that works in the way you know work. It was linked to GitHub. GitHub! That's a file storage website for developers to store unfinished versions of their games. And the spambot pretended to be the user being excited over the fact they made a game they wanted feedback on. If I looked further to realize it was a spambot, I would absolutely have averted the crisis even while I sleep. But no... I asked the "person" why they posted it in #fan-character-refs instead of #own-projects, and then proceeded to see what's the story with it was, scanning the archive with an antivirus, which detected nothing initially, so I was less smart... ugh.... I cringe at how stupid I was. After the first signs of things going wrong, I immediatelly jumped out of my sleepy head to reset my password on discord, put on 2FA and slowly clean up every single instance of the spam, while also getting my whole computer scanned. In the end, I decided to reinstall windows for safety's sake. Meanwhile, my youtube channel got hijacked somehow, and it took 2 appeals to get it back, the second one granting me a form that I could finally fill in a meaningful way. I was overjoyed when I finally got it back. I do not know if the Discord Spambot was responsible or it was another source coinciding with the Discord Hack. I unlinked everything I had connected to Discord, and even changed a lot of passwords to make sure nothing is lost. I was even ready to migrate to a new google account as well as make a new Discord just to be safe.
I think all that is left to do... is see if I can rejoin all 3 of the Discord groups I was banned from thanks to the damn hack. One already welcomed me back, tho not without a word on my mistake. I may get access back to a second one, as I got hold of the head honcho of that place, tho not guaranteed.
For the love of all gods and godesses, do not blindly click a link! You must make sure the person who sent it was not hacked in the first place, or better, avoid everything! Heck, quitting technology as a whole is better than going through what I just have, or even worse, for a single mistake!
EDIT: This reminds me the time Skailla got hacked on Deviantart, with her profile image and content being flooded with Chucky from the horror movie.
I used to uphold that rule to my best ability. I always saw through suspicious e-mails, I also remember reacting to MSN hackersluts with the one thing they deserve: a massive block. However, yesterday, I was fooled on Discord, and I am past one of the most stressful afternoons, as well as mornings, as not only my Discord got compromised, forcing me to reset my password, put on 2 factor authentication to protect it better, as well
Meanwhile, my Youtube channel also got hijacked. Without a doubt, I think idiot would not describe me. A fellow furry got it to himself to investigate the link and test the virus on a Virtual machine. Not much info on that, other than the hacker used Nvidia's certificate to sign the "program". The other trick, unlike other scammers, it didn't use Discord Nitro as a promise, nor did it have a garbled up gibberish link that works in the way you know work. It was linked to GitHub. GitHub! That's a file storage website for developers to store unfinished versions of their games. And the spambot pretended to be the user being excited over the fact they made a game they wanted feedback on. If I looked further to realize it was a spambot, I would absolutely have averted the crisis even while I sleep. But no... I asked the "person" why they posted it in #fan-character-refs instead of #own-projects, and then proceeded to see what's the story with it was, scanning the archive with an antivirus, which detected nothing initially, so I was less smart... ugh.... I cringe at how stupid I was. After the first signs of things going wrong, I immediatelly jumped out of my sleepy head to reset my password on discord, put on 2FA and slowly clean up every single instance of the spam, while also getting my whole computer scanned. In the end, I decided to reinstall windows for safety's sake. Meanwhile, my youtube channel got hijacked somehow, and it took 2 appeals to get it back, the second one granting me a form that I could finally fill in a meaningful way. I was overjoyed when I finally got it back. I do not know if the Discord Spambot was responsible or it was another source coinciding with the Discord Hack. I unlinked everything I had connected to Discord, and even changed a lot of passwords to make sure nothing is lost. I was even ready to migrate to a new google account as well as make a new Discord just to be safe.
I think all that is left to do... is see if I can rejoin all 3 of the Discord groups I was banned from thanks to the damn hack. One already welcomed me back, tho not without a word on my mistake. I may get access back to a second one, as I got hold of the head honcho of that place, tho not guaranteed.
For the love of all gods and godesses, do not blindly click a link! You must make sure the person who sent it was not hacked in the first place, or better, avoid everything! Heck, quitting technology as a whole is better than going through what I just have, or even worse, for a single mistake!
EDIT: This reminds me the time Skailla got hacked on Deviantart, with her profile image and content being flooded with Chucky from the horror movie.
