Account Security At Risk

[Tigairius]

Hello,

The GraalOnline administration would like to inform anyone who has recently dabbled in the use of any illegal Graal programs (hacks, trainers, bots, etc) have put their computer and account to severe risk. We never support the use of such third-party programs and the people who have decided to break the rules have put themselves at heavy risk.

We have identified that some of these programs being used to cheat are botnet clients and have gained access to your computer and your account information. A botnet is a network of compromised computers used to perpetrate e-Fraud or commit other cyber crimes such as DDoS attacks. The information is being sent over an open connection back to the original host who runs the anti-Graal websites.

We have also seen a drastic increase of accounts being stolen from people who have downloaded such programs from the anti-Graal websites. We urge our players to continue to play Graal legitimately, and do not use third-party cheating programs because they will always put your account and private information at risk. There is no such thing as a legal cheating program.

If you believe you have been a victim of such happenings, one way to check is to look at your process list (ctrl+alt+del > processes) and see if you're currently running windowsupdateservice.exe (note: this is subject to change, and is not guaranteed to be the infected file). If you are running it, then you are infected. It may be hidden in some other files as well, so you are not safe by just killing the process, you need to delete the file as well. There are most likely other components of the infection that may recreate itself after you reboot your computer.

We assume that typical anti-virus software (AVG, McAfee, Avira, etc) will be sufficient to remove the threat but do not guarantee it's accuracy. If we find special removal instructions for the situation, we will notify you by this thread. After you believe you have cleared up the infection, and you're sure, it is strongly recommended that you change all of your passwords and pay close attention to your billing statements if you make online purchases. These guys are not just interested in your Graal account information, it is well known that they are interested in credit cards and any other information they can get. The only way to truly make sure you're secured is by reformatting your hard drive and then changing all of your passwords and information.

Thanks,
Playerworld Administration

[MajinDragon]

Moral of the story: Don't cheat.

[OasaTor_PK]

Seriously, whats the point of moving fast in graal anyway.

[cyan3]

Didn't anti-graal use keyloggers for their software a few years ago? Honestly why even risk cheating.

[fowlplay4]

I'd imagine it's safe to say Team WSU is now dissolving (giving up on developing trainers, and just exploiting their suckerbase).

[TheJames]

Thats cool the globals don't condone the use of trainers; but are giving out warnings, to those who do. kudos

/No sarcasm

[FantasyX]

People should also take into account that it's not -only- affecting their Graal account.

Any other information you have stored on your computer is compromised. This includes paypal accounts, online banking, other games, etc.

[Bell]

Originally Posted by FantasyX

People should also take into account that it's not -only- affecting their Graal account.

Any other information you have stored on your computer is compromised. This includes paypal accounts, online banking, other games, etc.

Exactly, so far the logs I've seen have been accounts such as myspace accounts, filesharing programs, forums. ebay and several https websites. We are not trying to scare people, just warn them that this is a real threat to themselves and their own computer security.

On the other hand though, I don't want to hear people complaining to me how they got their accounts hacked and how its all Graal's fault that they lost their password and access to their accounts when its really their own fault.

[[email protected]]

Ahh, thanks
I didn't even notice this thread, I logged on to Era and found the link that way. Maybe add some kind of message on the news so people are aware... Not many people read the forums

[papajchris]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Ahh, thanks
I didn't even notice this thread, I logged on to Era and found the link that way. Maybe add some kind of message on the news so people are aware... Not many people read the forums

i was about to say the same thing. Add this to the front page news on log in

[Lyndzey]

Originally Posted by cyan3

Didn't anti-graal use keyloggers for their software a few years ago? Honestly why even risk cheating.

Yep, the return of Viper. When I caught him, he convinced people that unixmad had planted his IP in the stolen accounts and I was in on framing him.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that people learn/listen.

[Crono]

http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=45979

[CharlieM]

If the Person who made the keylogger is who I think it is most antivirus programs won't pick it up

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by Pelikano

However, if your IQ is over 42 you'll never download any "cheat-tools". If you do so, you'll run an Antivirus on them.

Custom malware is p. unlikely to be detected by antivirus software because it pretty much never becomes a big enough deal for the security show business to actually bother including it into signature files or whatever.

If your IQ is over 42, you will run the cheat tools in a virtual machine or at least on a user account with limited privileges.

[DustyPorViva]

It's silly to just act like they're not there... because they are. I know giving them attention is something they want, but there should be a minimal amount of warning to players rather than acting like everything is okay when it's clearly not.