These games carry REAL security risks! BEWARE!

[@jpteknoman]

If you are in your 40s, it's not just the kids but your parents too that need babysitting online to save them from scams.

[@PromethorYT]

Very true, I work customer service for a Bank in Canada and its so frustrating how many people, especially elderly people that get scammed. Helping them isn't what is frustrating but the fact that these people worked all their lives or/and are vulnerable either financially or with their health and some scammer just steal from them. It happens way too often, every week I get someone that got scammed, every day I get someone that almost got scammed.

[@mpholicx2]

Not all seniors are tech illiterate. I spent my whole life (I'm 68) in high tech electronics. I have been using, designing, building and repairing all types of computers since the early '80s.

[@PromethorYT]

@@mpholicx2 Of course not. But the vast majority are. I deal with customer service and 80% of people don't even know the difference between "google" and an internet browser and I'm not even referring to seniors.

[@prezentoappr1171]

@@mpholicx2 the true sadness, is ur the minority sir. this is indeed sad, just for pro, task manager dev replied to a bug or problem, most stuffs in japan is still COBOL, eg even vtuber that knows coding in japan (luna hololive) knows cobol, so yeah that means as usual japan is behind in software philosophy eg basically gimp UI vs adobe hardware is sheeh tho

[@oceanbytez847]

@mpholicx2 I just helped out American Legion post commander with his personal laptop. I breathed new life into that system with just malware bytes and clearing his startup menu. I've never seen someone have so much adware and bloatware before. I damn near had to boot it in safe mode, but didn't want to restart because it ran on a HDD and this AMD FX system (yes, it's that old) took about 10 minutes to reach win 10 password input.

[@blended7674]

2:15 GTA V online 4:28 Minecraft 5:49 CSGO / CS2 8:58 World of Warcraft 11:15 Battlefield 4 12:04 Fortnite 12:51 Diablo II Resurrected 13:05 Valorant 17:36 Surveys from the article

[@JokerDoom]

Just commenting to say the video is still worth watching. Yes these are the games, but the *why* is important as well.

[@peregrine1970]

You forgot the most important timestamp. 19:42

[@metallboy25]

Funny how i dont play any of them. Let alone mod. 😂

[@silfrido1768]

@@metallboy25I don’t blame you, everyone cheats anyway

[@AverageEstonian]

Helldivers 2 is missing from the list since it has malware/rootkit anticheat that breaks/bricks PCs as well

[@ScaerieTale]

The Sims 4 players have actually been having problems with mods that contain malware due to the fact that scripting mods are basically just python files disguised as .ts4script files. Thankfully TwistedMexi, a well known and respected modder, made a great anti malware mod too combat this, but it just shows that no franchise is really "safe" if it has a big enough modding scene.

[@EwanMarshall]

The minecraft modding scene has had issues, but the other modders police them on the major repositories, curseforge and modrinth. This is something one has to consider though, do the repositories do any vetting (curseforge used to inspect every minecraft mod upload from new submitters for example). Now it is more an after the fact thing, but there are modders that have basically been banned from the community due to issues. Quite frankly a trojan is also a risk for downloading apps generally and rootkit anti-cheat and drm systems are quite frankly more worrying to me.

[@HopelessPhoenix]

Gmod has issues too with lua viruses that put out screamer jumpscares, gore jumpscares, sexual stuff and overall possible malwares... I dunno about fallout and skyrim, and cyberpunk but they seem safe so far

[@michaelmonstar4276]

It's probably because it went Free-to-Play and very likely exploded in player-count, making it an easy target. - I was considering finally jumping on that game for free, having played since the first, but never got beyond the demo of 3. But now I'm kinda glad I didn't. - That said, I was never big into modifications for these games and mostly played the official content, as I would have with 4 initially. Anyway, as said, it's probably exactly because it's big and also very populated that it got targeted. - And let's be real, The Sims has very high mainstream-appeal, so there will be so many more people who are very casual with computer-stuff and don't know that you can't just pull these files from anywhere, especially kids/teens. And like you said, it doesn't help that it's simple to do. Which brings to mind: I don't know if there is a mod-manager or anything for The Sims or if it's just a case of throwing loose files into a folder, but it would probably be a good thing to have something where mods get kind of curated and the like (other than reputable websites). - For example, Minecraft has Prism Launcher for example, which allows you to make entire profiles for modified instances of the game, AND you can even search for and download the mods through that manager, creating an extra layer of certainty that you're getting something that's known and from a known source. - Probably not 100% secure, but better than scouring websites (again, outside of the reputable ones). But yea, then try and get everyone on board and informed, cause I doubt most Minecraft-players outside of the biggest enthusiasts even know about Prism Launcher, even though Minecraft is also massive. But that's probably because it only spawned from a previous mod-manager a few years ago, of which... ironically, its developer (or one of) went nuts and became corrupt, practically destroying that entire project by breaking all trust. 💁

[@michaelmonstar4276]

@@EwanMarshall Yea, the stuff that officially comes with games worry me as well. - Like the anti-cheat stuff that needs to run at root level or whatever. I mean, tf man... I get that it needs to monitor what is going on, but you're really opening up a door there just to play a friggin' game. And it's not that I feel important enough to be targeted and I've a pretty secure setup and there's not much important on my system anyway. But I just don't need a chance to any bullshittery, or increase that chance because of a game anyway. Nah, I'll just play something else. And for mods, it's not too hard to just look and see if it's something well-known and if it's downloaded from a known source as well. - The thing is that they prey on people who don't check and will just click on "OMG GOD MODE?? HECK YEA!!" and just install it, then the next minute the Russian mob is at their door and they wonder why. heh... 🤷

[@EwanMarshall]

@@HopelessPhoenix those are not really viruses so much as an event programmed into the mod.

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

I hate to tell you but The Sims, Farming Simulator, Cities Skylines, Even American ETS2 Truck Simulator have all had breaches recently. No matter what game you need to make sure you are downloading mods from a reliable/trusted source. Look for sources that do not immediately list mods until they have been checked, or known popular modders on their actual site. Love that you covered this.

[@floriangrun3414]

I just wondered why Sims 4 isn't on this list. I don't know any other game, where people download so many mods and CC.

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

@@floriangrun3414 LOL actually I have Sims 4 and I have more CC in Farming Simulator then that.

[@BoatyInBorderland]

So the security breach was more for the games with anti cheat. That's how they reached. Sims does not have anti cheat.

[@bwcbiz]

And even "Trusted sources" can be subject to supply-chain attacks.

[@ernieb3949]

All of this is why I have never downloaded a mod to any game.... I played WoW for 9 years and never had a problem with it being hacked.

[@jaspervn4722]

as someone who has no friends to play multiplayer with, i see this as a win

[@MrZootalores]

me too! have you played Tomb Raider 1-2-3 remastered? just out. get it,you'll love how they made the original games so much better looking,easy to install & play.

[@KittyOfBorg]

Haha, yeah... Same

[@Grom84]

me too!

[@adamliz8172]

Same here that makes 4 of us... will you be my friends 😂

[@Rodger_Phillips]

same, the one who would, he died

[@Legoless1979]

Basically Jay: "But fuck Norton..." I laughed so hard.

[@senator29]

Norton is a virus. Dealt with it in support for like 10 years and it breaks so much. Misses a lot of viruses too. You can find companies who test and compare anti-virus suites and post online

[@LatitudeSky]

He just did a video bashing Norton, MaCafee, etc. This isn't a new hatred.

[@goosius_maximus]

I howled. Just the simple fact that J2C chose to leave it audible makes it 1000% better

[@rynominnie83]

@@goosius_maximus This was my first thought as well. The fact that I heard the actual "fuck" and didn't hear it being fart-beeped stood out for me and I had to listen again

[@reburgcam]

this is a lowkey fearmongering advertisement for norton tho..

[@miguelfernandez2325]

So the title of this video should've been " These MODS carry Real security risk! Beware" LMAO

[@clownbaby7985]

I also had someone steal my origins account, I didn’t change my password until months later since they were just playing my games.

[@RyGuyRy]

@@clownbaby7985 using app authenticator and login verification if your friend here..

[@Kalolui94]

​​​@@clownbaby7985 I got dead space 3 free thanks to some Russian 😂 he left his save game there. Once I had access to thousands of origin accounts through a friend that sent me a txt documents 😅

[@Raven777777777777777]

@@clownbaby7985 Had that happen with facebook but since i wasnt using it for about 12 years i dont care about it, let that one guy in england enjoy it if its so important to him xD

[@dangerously72]

@@clownbaby7985 Same..Origin is a major Hacker target....i am starting to think it's Origin employees or their associates who are doing the crimes.

[@bulletn3ctar]

Where's my single-player gang at? 👍

[@reviewyourownadventure2083]

yaaaas. F multiplayer.

[@Finnishguy777]

I hate mp games

[@WatcherKoops4677]

What about PvE multiplayer? Offline if it exists

[@brandongreene3213]

Shor's bones I miss single player TES.

[@scottdickson9224]

Ayy

[@desmondlau4632]

I did get banned on wow once , I was a Guild master and they disbanded the guild , took everything (i was told) , took and mailed all the money away , cleared my friends list within 5 minutes. I was playing one minute , kicked out of server , never been able to log back in , and it got locked and banned . That was 2010 by the way. Took me jump hoops after hoops for 2 days and finally found a GM to prove that was in no way it was me (IP difference and apparently the login cycle helped) , everything got restored 3 days later , gold gear and guild remade , had to re-invite everyone, had to re-add everyone on frd list and ALOT of explaining to do because back then , getting hacked , others blame you. And lost a raid week. And no , I don't have a single mod , it was pure vanilla. These days tho .... good luck finding a human GM at Blizzard.

[@skunkey9923]

No mods during cataclysm?!? your guild must've SUCKED, or i'm calling BS

[@desmondlau4632]

@@skunkey9923 What ... I can't be raiding without mods ? sucked ? maybe , its not server first , it did enough to finish deathwing. But everyone back then finished deathwing so ... I don't see your point. I also have the bronze proto drake when the patch was current without mods so there's that. You are not the first to question this tho , most guild members did and I used to make fun of them when they say " oh i need to update DBM / healbot b4 raid".

[@josephoberlander]

My Blizzard story was the first time they got hacked (2012 IIRC). Suddenly the game didn't work, so here I am in chat on my other pc with Blizzard support and they change my password and as I'm talking to the person, it gets changed again while I am logged in and I get locked out. Then the tech gets locked out/can't change it - ie - they change it and it instantly changes again on their end seconds later, before the email even reaches me. And I have my authenticator turned on - a physical one. ;) They finally got it worked out after two days, but refused to admit that the only way that the password and account details could be changed in real-time without my logging in to do so was them being hacked/having access to their SQL logins and changing stuff on the server side. 4 months later the press quietly admitted that they had been hacked. So sometimes there is nothing you can do. Also, Blizzard sucks. It's why all of my Blizzard accounts are on still on console. I figure if they get root access to Sony's servers, online gaming is dead anyways... lol.

[@Islander0711]

Yea, I got banned from WOW, logged in one day and found that My account didn't exist, right after I payed for the expansion. No way to talk to anyone, just hoop after hoop. All my stuff that I did from 2004 to 2022 is gone. It was a bummer. I just do single player games now. I still shed a tear for my lost toons every now and then though.

[@s7r49]

i, on the other hand, used fishing bots for years daily and never got banned lol. i quit wow a few expansions back though. (honestly i just wanted some of those fishing pets and titles. salty etc. I had no interest in cheating otherwise and have never cheated in any game otherwise or any other way)

[@Lucas2RC]

I'd just like to add to the conversation that both Valorant and League of Legends, from Riot, have anticheats with kernel level. That's what I call dangerous...

[@ofmoosenmen]

Hate to break it to ya, most online multiplayer shooters have ring 0 access. So, basically, you should just not play online games amirite?

[@ReptilianLepton]

@@ofmoosenmen Spyware with a reacharound doesn't cease to be spyware.

[@bc454irocz89]

yeah valorant is straight malware lol

[@subthology]

Games with ring 0 Access can allow hackers to leverage the game as a attack vector to gain a foot hold into your system the legit game devs arnt out to get you unless you are hacking but there system isnt totally secure so the devs arnt protecting you only them selves while you paid them to give you a game with vulnerability its a bad deal but its your choice to be vulnerable ultimately. Its your security vs there $$$

[@RyanKarolak]

Yeah. That makes me uncomfortable. I've also had Vanguard break a Windows install, presumably because something happened with it and a Windows update.

[@thatzaliasguy]

You know what else carries actual, severe security risks? Kernel-level anti-cheat (rootkit) drivers that operate on Ring-0, giving unfettered administrative access to the kernel of your operating system. It's only a matter of time before these drivers get exploited, opening entire doors for full Remote Code Execution and Injection.

[@azenyr]

We should also blame Windows itself for even letting apps install rootkits in Ring-0 without any effort whatsoever. Developers just do this because Windows allows this to be done

[@TheAnonymousLemur]

​@@azenyrThey allow it to be done, but not without knowledge to the user. It's done because users let it happen, not windows.

[@starc.]

thats been used for over a decade in the biggest ever games be realistic if this was a big issue it would have been known by now

[@imtheparty12]

Yeah a lot of people don't realize that these anti-cheats have full, total, administrative access to your entire system. They can see all your hardware and read all API talks between your apps and drivers. Data privacy is still perfectly vulnerable on Ring-3, but I don't like the idea of an anti-cheat having admin injected into my kernel, especially given that it's got internet access while running on Ring-0. Just asking to get compromised. Any bugs they didn't catch can potentially wreck your system and lead to needing to clean install. Street Fighter V's anti-cheat disabled a CPU security feature that allowed the game itself to get kernel access, and it's an online game where a malicious actor in a match is now given a pinhole to your kernel. It was patched, but the fact that this can happen is alarming.

[@BuzzKiller23]

PREACH!

[@hidde3454]

Black ops 3 legit allows remote shell execution while its still one of the most popular zombies games

[@randyb.9143]

that was patched months ago lol

[@AdolfHitler420]

@@randyb.9143 Still being exploited.

[@frankthedank381]

Use t7 patch :)

[@thefreakhouse]

@@randyb.9143it’s still bad though, that’s why zombies is now played on the BOIII client

[@yellowskrub]

Almost all of the old COD games on steam are super dangerous to play online, or just cannot be played at all.

[@tomsawyer19890]

So, all of these aren't the games that are risks, but actions taken outside of them. Utilizing account security, vetting sources... just like any other computer related concern in regards to security. Would have been nice to have actual games that fundamentally carried risks.

[@LotoTheHero]

Agreed!

[@44R0Ndin]

You mean like Black Ops 3 that has the remote shell execution exploit in it?

[@elvendragonhammer5433]

I know of 2- I'm sure there are plenty more that ppl just haven't taken the time to notice or vet yet. 1) Crypto Currency Simulator ($25.00 USD), not only did it mine using your GPU in the background, but it had keyloggers & other stuff to try to steal any avail logins you had. 2) Instruction (*FREE)- unlike most, I actually read the Eula/ToS. What was unusual is it had a whole clause about how they are supposedly protected by their ToS if their software has viruses, keyloggers, worms, or trojans in it. (That wouldn't actually hold up in court though) So I vetted that one myself. Virus total found 1 keylogger & 3 different trojans. I reported both games , but haven't checked up on them to see if they are still on the store or not. There was also a huge purge by Valve recently for (500+) games that had changed their names/studio names multiple times claiming to be a newer game (HellDivers was one that they did this with) where they made it look like they were the real page, & only after you purchased & ran the game did you find out you got screwed & were given a free or $5 game instead of the one it looked like. They had found a way to push their listing to the top of the actual list above the real game in question kind of like how games put every god dammed tag possible for their game, which completely breaks sorting by genre or using steam's dynamic game categories.

[@spellcrafter23]

The problem with this is I've never seen a game where you can play without running as administrator. Every time you launch the game, you're granting admin access to the process.

[@JaggedCanine07]

You mean like the games that are listed in this video? They carry risks with the install, even Helldivers 2 carries a risk with the absolute bottom of the barrel anti-cheat they decided to use.

[@FBI_42069]

a lot of this stuff listed can happen in any game if you add mods or other stuff like online like it's not just those games. i have heard that valorants anti cheat could be used as spyware because you have to have it running all the time even when you are not playing the game and if you close it you have to completely restart your PC to play the game, which is super sketchy knowing that the company that owns valo is a Chinese company which has been known for taking info and selling it. one reason i don't have that game installed on my PC.

[@carlosdasilva9325]

That's right. As soon as I had to restart my pc in order to even play the game I uninstalled it swiftly...

[@marv4787]

I gave up on the Call of Duty series long ago. Not so much for the threat of malware, but for the hacking. They ditched Punkbuster and added their own anti-cheat software that seemed to do absolutely nothing. Almost every version of CoD after that, that I played, was ruled by hackers. I had enough and walked away from the game that I used to love to play. I hope that their anti-cheat has now improved.

[@justuraveragegamer2670]

19:42 love how you left the f bomb in 😂😂😂

[@snoogabean]

Hey Jay, Minecraft Dungeons is an entirely separate game developed by Mojang. It's official.

[@RoninLlamaSan]

THANKK UUU I was going to say....That's not a mod, its an official Mojang game! Please look into things like your asking us to, I know things can slip but i know you guys are better than that. Overall great VId and Great information guys!

[@corvusdiabolos]

Not to mention it was developed using Unreal.

[@theshaggydogg2867]

@@RoninLlamaSan this is a fairly low effort video sadly. just reading an article and commenting on it with pure conjecture.

[@shattered_helix]

@@theshaggydogg2867 I agree. There are things that Jay knows about, and there are things that he obviously knows little about. If all I had to go on was this video, I would say that video game modding is one of the things he knows very little about.

[@facenameple4604]

He also got Diablo 2: Ressurrected wrong, given that's the remake. Like... geez.

[@cuzicouldyay]

Ooh la la, lack of censor at the end there. Made me smile though. The right mindset to have toward Norton.

[@Frazzlenodazzle]

61 yo female here messing up your demographic. :) Ive been subscribed to you for going on 2 years. I build my computers and youve been a huge help. But ive also been playing WoW for 19 years and had my account stolen (before I had an authenticator) and Blizzard replaced all of my items. Ive had to contact Blizzard a couple of times for problems and theyve always done everything to make things right.

[@z0s_Icebaker]

I'm happy for you that you got some actual help and things got fixed.

[@sheldonbromen2603]

I lost wow twice too hacking and had an authenticator and blizzard refused to help after years of playing taking my money I was told to bad buy it a 3rd time I refuse to play their games anymore.

[@froggie2823]

My son had his account hacked twice. No authenticator..wiped my guild bank clean. Both times they replaced all his stuff and what was in my guild bank including gold.

[@wiliestrogue2924]

Blizzard has almost zero customer service at this point. They've screwed up WoW to the point it isn't even an MMO. They destroyed OW and outright cheated customers with OW2. I just feel sad for anyone that defends Blizzard as a company. Stop giving companies money that abuse you.

[@FlipforTruth]

Much respect from one builder to another, it's the only way to go.

[@spart0n654]

I remember back in 2011 or 2012 I signed up for wow on a trial and never paid for it, but I never deleted the account in case I ever wanted to actually play it. Anyways in 2019 right around when COVID started I got an email from blizzard that my account was banned for violating their TOS. Just out of curiosity I emailed their support and asked what happened. I was told that the account was involved in some kind of sale. I never logged in, never got any emails except the account ban email.

[@AndromedatheBasshead]

I often use those Visa gift cards one can purchase at a grocery store or something. They work like a regular debit or credit card, and it saves you from linking your real money to anything.

[@Aevilbeast]

They are super useful for stuff like that, you never need to worry about over-charging fee's or anything like that, just deposit the money you want to spend, and if someone shady happens and your CC info is stolen, they ain't getting nothin'. You can report your card stolen and they'll send you a new card, and IIRC they have a insurance policy/idenitity theft protection for under a certain amount (I think it's up to $500, I maybe wrong on that limit and it might change depending on which pre-paid debit card you get,) and while it might take a while in certain cases, they will actually replace any stolen money. My friend says they are also really useful to sign up to "free trials" where they need a valid CC so once the free trial offer expires so they charge you. That way if you forget about canceling in time, and they charge you, as long as you keep that account with nothing, they aren't going to get anything. (As long as you don't have anything in it in the first place!) (Some places makes so you need pay in full for the first month after the free trial, but if you cancel during the trial you get a full refund) Also I HIGHLY recommend Privacy com as it's lefit super ussful in keeping you safe while you shop on the intertnet, with it generates a new & unique CC every single time you buy something on line, that way no one can steal your info and plus if helps you keep track of everything you are getting charged for, and it'll even cancel subscriptions for you.

[@geehammer1511]

Works fine till you try to buy a game that has a refund policy then you can't purchase the game due to the card being used not allowing funds to be put onto it.

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

literally just use a credit card or paypal why are you paying gift card fees

[@LilaHikes]

People shouldn't be using debit cards for anything these days. It is a good way to get your bank account cleaned out - especially if your bank doesn't give a rip about monitoring fraud. With a debit card, *it is on you to prove the activity in question was fraudulent.* It literally can take months to get your money back. The reality of this hits when the bills are due and you got no money to pay them. On the other hand, when you use a credit card, *you're using the bank's money instead of your own.* You can easily file a dispute while not being out any money.

[@littleaw2011]

Gta online has had issues even without mods. IP leaks and such.

[@thatguyjp2047]

Gta online on pc is a death trap. Console version is safe

[@WhiteDieselShed]

@@thatguyjp2047 LOL you keep thinking that. It's like Linux users saying there are no viruses....

[@Demonetized]

Theres no IP leaking, it's a P2P server, Same for Minecraft aswell.

[@ThaEurasian]

You mean Wheelie Stealie Automobiley 5?

[@ghoulinNfoolin]

Same with rdr. Rockstar just don't care.

[@AKE_e]

Diablo II - Resurrected is very relevant because that's the new remake of DII. There's a huge market for that game over at D2JSP where people will buy gold and items using Forum Gold that you can get by buying it with real money. I would imagine that is why Resurrected is on that list because they can wipe your account clean for real money profit. Not only that, D2 does have mods for it that is meant to rebalance things or add new features to the game to expand the experience.

[@thatoneguyffs]

Reasons i don't mess with jsp or mods.

[@pghbreinig44]

Not even D2JSP but you have bot stores like D2legit and D2store that people will constantly spam in channels and games for bot'd items. Those sites are extremely sketchy and also you could possibly get banned for corrupt items(This at least used to be a problem back when duping was possible but not sure how relevant this is anymore.)

[@unitedhybrid187]

Best mods I've played: Half Life where you can be Superman, Batman, a mailbox, etc. It was silly. Unreal Tournament where you're mini characters and play in a bathroom, with a working toilet.

[@CyberDragon10K]

Chaos Unreal Tournament for 1999 GotY edition was _excellent._ The grappling hook and bastard sword were fun.

[@unitedhybrid187]

@@CyberDragon10K I remember that.

[@themightymutt5213]

@@CyberDragon10K Oooh I spent SO many hours on that! And RTCW had some good modded MP gameplay as well

[@AdamKiraly_3d]

I had my origin account hacked 4 times, same thing happened they just sold my account to some rando russians who just played my games. Not once did they have access to my email account, I had 2fA on that forever. I don't understand how EA's security was so bad

[@login0false]

The stolen accounts market is huge here in russia, especially after the war started. You get bombarded with sponsored ads for account and key marketplaces and hardly anyone says a word on how it's against ToS and morally dubious. It's unsafe in the sense the purchased account could get recovered anytime (though some sellers promise to provide you with a different account with the advertised game(s) if you lose access to "yours", showing just how big the whole thing is), but it's cheap enough to be treated like a lottery or rental. Also I heard arguments that it's fine bc it's on the account's owner if it was stolen and ther are not losing anything anyway as long as they can contact support once they find out, like in Jayz's case (not that I necessarily agree). And the war also created great demand for region lock circumvention (fuck big publishers for that, and fuck pootin too), with account shenanigans being one of the primary methods.

[@tet5uo]

Blizzard actually did get accounts back if you were phished. Happened to me back in 2009 and customer support had me back in my character in a day. They also mailed me all the gear that had been deleted/sold by the goldsellers who nicked me. I thin their customer support is nothing like it was back then, however. Not sure I'd have that luck today.

[@youbetterwakeup2449]

Same happened to me, because my e-mail was hacked. Hotmail was hot garbage.

[@kage_231]

same here back in original wrath. my pc broke and i didnt play for a few months and my account got hacked and used as a bot to farm ore eventually it got banned and i got it back and they did the same mailed me back all the gear that got sold

[@sirdude8608]

Blizzard still recovers accounts but has (AFAIK) limited it to once per life of account now. If it happens again, then you're generally SOL.

[@Ms_Cheesecake]

My ex's account got hacked thanks to that big Yahoo email hack years ago, and Blizzard refused to give him his account back, even with driver's license and everything. :(

[@desadia]

@@sirdude8608 as you should be, it should only take one time for you to wise up your security.

[@AnEternalEnigma]

I remember when Halo 3 was new in 2007. Recon armor was a huge, exclusive thing and you could only get it if someone from Bungie put it on your account. There were so many Xbox Live accounts getting hacked because people would pretend to be Bungie employees asking for people's email/password so they could "give you Recon". This was my first big exposure to this.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

games that carry real world computer viruses dun dun DUN.....

[@scottofcanes]

... really? People fell for that? Over some stupid cosmetic thing? It's a different game/genere, but even when I was like 10 and got introduced to Runescape (Santa Hats cost 1m at the time, I believe), I noticed that "armor trimming" was a scam almost instantly.

[@vedotin]

This happened like 15 years ago, but I was in an online game where the main focus was to just chat with people. You had avatars and a world to explore, but not really do much else than maybe role play in. I met someone that I chatted with, they wanted to know my microsoft live email, so we could continue chatting on live messenger. At that point, I had learned to be skeptic of giving my email address out to just anyone who asks, but I really wanted to keep chatting with that person. I literally went and created a new email account, just for the purpose of having one to give to strangers. Well, the person never reached out on live messenger, and to this day I thought nothing of it. Now, after watching this video, I believe they were just phishing for emails.

[@omegabkg]

One thing I don't like doing over the phone is when health insurance companies ask for your card information to provide them for whatever health insurance you need. It makes me feel uncomfortable

[@andrewlaidlaw7975]

With accounts getting banned that's the reason why I gave up playing multiplayer in Diablo 2 due to the amount of spam bots promoting whatever site where you could supposedly buy in game gold.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a couple of MMOs i played for a while and quit, partly because of those spambots. one version of Aion, and Dragon Nest. it was truly horrifying how BLATANT they were. one bot was literally standing in a doorway RIGHT next to the main entrance of the capital city of Aion, you couldn't help but bump into it!

[@brandonbonet6140]

There was a time, my wife's warcraft account was hacked. At the Time ahe co-lead a guild with me and we amazingly got into the account before it was banned. A GM ticket was issued amd we got 90% of everything that was taken. The gold she had and the gold or the guild bank gold was the only thing we could not get back

[@celuiquipeut6527]

Man that hurt! We had a guild wil millions get stolen back in BC. Good ol days! :)

[@J.King39]

Hope you're feeling well Jay. Thanks for another dope vid.

[@temperedglass1130]

You have a crush on him hehehhe

[@philipmrch8326]

@@temperedglass1130 We all do.

[@J.King39]

@@temperedglass1130 its weird that you dont

[@ndk2k4]

WoW is has an additional interesting security hole where one addon that you more or less need to use to play endgame content called WeakAuras has an option to import code strings into your game to load other people's created auras... the custom code strings often have so much extra added to them that its crazy how many people just blindly import them. I've ran into scripts that attempt to send your private data to random burner emails for example.

[@tynomite]

3:53 the game was CSGO, but it wasn’t CSGO itself, it was the 3rd party platform ESEA, which was attractive at the time for competitive players because of the anti-cheat.

[@mattgibbia2692]

8:15 mail theft is an odd one to me. The potential reward is so low for what getting caught and charged would get you. The post office does not f around

[@GaNjiie]

When i was like 17yrs old my WoW Account got stolen (i guess via email phishing). Wrath of the Lich King was the Expansion. When I logged in my Character was under the Map, they used my Account to flyhack under the map and farm ores. Told Blizzard about it and got everything back.

[@JCascade6065]

Earlier this year my Blizzard acc got perma-banned from WoW. Which I have never played in my life. I hadn't used the account in about a decade (was a surprising email to get for sure). Did everything I could, talked to support, etc etc. Would not honor my request to just delete my account entirely. And get this: it was because I couldn't name any of my WoW characters! So I just fudged all the personal info in the account. Blizzard is trash.

[@aprilgeneric8027]

@@JCascade6065 why are you giving out real personal info? do you believe police's job is to actually protect and serve....because that decepticon sticker has been there since the 1980's and the supreme court has ruled time ad again they have no duty to those ends...putting your real ID info on the internet is your go to jail free monopoly deck of cards of nothing but go to jail free. i'm just floored any one uses their real ID outside of apple users

[@dianaalyssa8726]

I've had an experience(s) similar to Jay, they were just playing the game oddly enough, current expansion at that time, possibly running mission tables even had a few hundred more gold, XD. Literally they were chilling in Ardenweald doing casual stuff. I changed the password though. Sometimes I wonder if it was an old friend I used to have over that got in. I've found things on my menu bar that made 0 sense and a couple of misequipped rogue and mage characters. That person used to play on his ex-girlfriends account also, just always suspected it was them since nothing was stolen, all the alts were still clothed. Think RMT takeovers are the most common bans tbh though.

[@TheBloopers30]

@@JCascade6065 Support in general is not the same anymore. Jagex has the same problem but worse I'd say because it's almost impossible to get in contact with their support in the first place. Have had some good experience with Valve and surprisingly enough, EA. Though it's hard to know how much luck I had by my side.

[@DxBang3D]

35-44?? Damn, I am older than your 40%

[@steve228i]

Me too!

[@dannyadams5250]

Way older🤬

[@anthonybaleur9296]

and i am going to have 30 , i'm not even in the subscriber stats

[@RevenantxSaint]

Lol here i am in the opposite spectrum. I am only just 20 yrs old lol.

[@peregrine1970]

Ditto... 54.... and 1 day here.

[@myztklk3v]

The matrix mod you are referring to was called The Specialist (the half life 1 version) and then the source version was called Double Action: Boogaloo. The specialist was better IMO.

[@G0rgar]

I played the shit out of The Specialists back in the day, always wanted a source version. Never knew it actually happened.

[@CootBusiness]

Such a gem of a mod, me and my friends had such fierce competition in skill with the Kung Fu fighting

[@iHANSUNG]

The Specialists was amazing

[@kennethkingdon-korab2174]

I'm so happy another old man is finally speaking my language. All these Ere youngsters don't know what the war of 1999 was ere like? Computers everywhere gonna crash at midnight, browsing histories gonna disappear forever, YOUR SAVED GAMES GONE!!! Y2K Man!!!

[@H33t3Speaks]

Cats! Dogs! Raining! Ahhh! Yes, I remember it vividly. Honestly I’m super surprised a mega-worm has not run ram-shod unflinchingly unopposed across the net, like “I Love You!” A lot of lessons were learned but some essentials have been lost. “The Cloud” is probably the next big thing to totally fail from some kind of malware. Things are VERY centralized even in comparison to 5 years ago.

[@TemplarRuisleipä]

Na dude im younger then you dude and vividly remember y2k but yet again i was just old enough to remember it

[@TemplarRuisleipä]

​@@H33t3Speaksyup

[@bung0o]

I’d like to add, that about 60% of call of duty titles pre warzone are a minefield. Specifically, I had tried call of duty WWII on pc having never played it, and one week later I’m in a lobby & someone in the game chat leaked everyone’s IP address. Without separate launchers, you run a risk of getting your IP leaked or having someone in said lobby gain remote access to your pc

[@fragalot]

The thing about GTA V being risky are the MODDERS (hackers really) who can see everyone's IP address, screw with you, mess around or delete money and inventory.. etc. because rockstar does not use dedicated servers for GTA online. This should NOT be confused with mods that modify single player game, or the roleplaying servers that use modified DEDICATED servers and clients that are played online by streamers, like FiveM.

[@senator29]

This happened to me. If you log off quickly the edits won't stick

[@LoFiAxolotl]

Yes that's exactly the same thing... the mod itself doesn't matter if multiplayer or singleplayer can contain anything that the modder wants.... doesn't matter if your favorite parasocial boyfriend plays on a server or not

[@TheNiteNinja19]

Yeah like I've had game instability that was caused by modders, somehow getting into my computer's memory, and the only way to get the game to run good again, was to restart the computer.

[@JayJay-ro3px]

I'm a newbie in GTA V online and haven't DL any mods. I usually see online it's dangerous and easy to get ban because of hacker, this makes me afraid of playing online. Does this happen too if I don't play GTA V Online with mods?

[@skarf1428]

I got banned from GTA Online after modders ran around giving players lots of money and experience. Boycotted Rockstar since, and will continue to do so, because they didn’t let me explain what happened. I was told that a ban would never get lifted.

[@ShadyTheDragon]

remember when the ESEA csgo client would mine bit coin on peoples computers? dude made like 2mil worth of bitcoin from it

[@celuiquipeut6527]

I wish i kneww how bitcoin worked. Everyine lile to keep it secret. Guess ill never make money.

[@skeeb5317]

Then he said it was an "April fools" joke that a glitch accidently made it go into a patch. Haha got eeemm

[@hv4329]

Tldr : bitcoin is digital money. When you perform a transaction it's not calculated on some bank server, it is calculated by people who are "mining bitcoin". These people are then rewarded by the creator of bitcoin with a certain amount of bitcoin for contributing. You mine bitcoin by running a program that uses your graphics card to do algorithms and stuff.

[@KingDarkOne1996]

He should have made it use 1% of the pcs power. No one would have ever known. Ow well. Thoughts for the next person to try

[@dockeydidit]

I went to an Intel seminar and they were giving away free Norton and no one would take it.

[@BigHeadClan]

For good reason it’s pretty trash and modern windows defender is actually pretty solid

[@johnnyb0001]

​@@BigHeadClanincorrect, windows defender gets bypassed by latest malware

[@Darby_777]

@@johnnyb0001 care to share the source of this knowledge? I'm asking very seriously

[@uniqueprogressive9908]

@@Darby_777 Your typical antivirus usually has 3 common methods of scanning files. They can be all bypassed, which means their is no perfect antivirus that exist. The best antivirus is carefully placing your trust. Only download software from known vendors and make sure it has a good reputation. If you are still worried then just download open source software... Here are 3 methods. 1. Scanning the executable hex data for traces that are found in known malware, some malware vendors get around this by encoding the hex data and adding a embedded translation layer which is known as obfuscation. 2. Identifying malware by comparing the md5 values of downloaded files to check if theirs a match in their database of malware definitions. This can be bypassed by replicating itself with a flipped bit 3. Heuristic analysis. Where your computer uses AI to check if the executable running in a closed sandboxed environment is engaging malware-like behavior. Such as session-stealing or using using known exploits to run code without administrative privileges. This can be bypassed by adding the ability to check for a sandboxed environment and refusing to run

[@MichaelArlt]

​​​@@Darby_777if people dont post sources, it's most probably false information or main character syndrome. And on the other hand, as if Norton would dominate in regards of malware bypassing protection over defender in any way. He just makes himself look totally stupid 🤣

[@Alice_Fumo]

I would generally recommend having a firewall with a filter for malware, phishing, ads, etc. Protects all of your (and your kids) devices equally. If you set up a VPN to your home network, it would also protect your devices while you're not browsing from within your home network - like with phones and stuff. It's likely not very effective against malware in mods, though.

[@jonahmatteson]

I am surprised Roblox is not on that list.

[@solhays]

I had the exact same thing happen to my Origin account as you did. I ended up getting his email, sending him emails in Russian and I got the most Russian answer you could imagine. Mind you I have several Russian friends many I've known for 15+ years. But the dude basically said, "why not steal from you, obviously you can afford it since you bought the game" I was broke as heck, it was a dang gift! haha

[@_Uh_Oh_]

Same, I got a free game on Origin (can't remember which) and mine got hacked by a Russian too. I never even bothered to try getting it back

[@HartenDylan]

Tried to have this exact conversation with one of my friends about how there's always a chance of getting a virus when downloading mods, and basically got told I was trying to fear-monger. Appreciate the sanity check!

[@MegabyteRedSector]

this is exactly why any mods I use, I not only make sure of the source, but I then "age" first (let it sit a while on my hard drive before scanning and installing so that it doesnt have a chance to be the latest thing).

[@lucasguetschow3598]

Minecraft Dungeons isn't a Mod... It's a stand alone game.

[@originaldarkwater]

The vast majority of World of Warcraft mods are written in Lua and only run entirely sandboxed within WoW's engine, so there's no way that anyone can access the rest of your computer or your account information or whatever from in there. The ones you have to watch out for are the ones that want you to install and run an executable outside of the normal addon install (Curse won't do this automatically, either). So you really only have to worry if the addon is asking you to do something more than just click on the CurseForge item to install it.

[@ThornyPickled]

Talking about the "free ad". Im literally telling my whole family about that, as im surprised i didnt know about a service like that and that feels like next level protection.

[@Number5_SCP]

Maybe Jay gets in to it more later in the video, but 99% of mods are completely safe and the only danger is your game crashing due to compatibility issues

[@brandonokeeffe1193]

And the 1% of mods that aren't safe is how people get malware, which is why multiple times he put at the bottom of the screen to vet your mod sources

[@ryleybulmer6282]

Haven't watched the full vid yet, but if it isn't there, FPS games like Apex and CoD should absolutely be included here. At the most recent Apex event a handful of players literally got hacked mid-match and had cheats remotely added to their PC's. Personally, there's nothing scarier than the idea that playing a game could open my PC up to a remote access hack.

[@sike3000]

Wasn't the game a fault. The hacker specifically targeted the two players and compromised their PC. check out pirate softwares coverage on it.

[@Ram2rol]

I think the Mod you talking about is "The Specialists" for Half-Life

[@AnonYmous-bc5xk]

10:00 All the instances, where my friends and guildies have had this happen, Blizzard reinstated their WoW accounts without any issue. The only thing they don't give back is lost currency, valuable items, etc.

[@Shat_Tastic]

everquest in 1999 was the start, the devs didnt even know until 1 year later LOL

[@YOEL_44]

2:15 First thing you say, first thing you miss: GTA V on PC doesn't have a separate exe for its Online mode, in fact, there is many speedrunners that have had their runs ruined by modders injecting code into their single player campaign. There has been in fact a couple of mods with malware, but for the most part, the issue is specifically, the fact that you singleplayer campaign is still working with fully online features, and that a modder doesn't really need much info to infiltrate into it.

[@walrider]

Your useful and informative comment is probably gonna get drowned out by the rest and ignored unfortunately.

[@YOEL_44]

@@walrider Yeah well... this video was incredibly uninformative, I bet he didn't even read the article cause he got everything wrong, and not just with GTA

[@CheesyPotat0]

Old Call of Duty games on PC are known to be dangerous to play online. Check the Steam forums to see people have been talking about it for years. I've read people talking about everybody should avoid certain servers on Rising Storm Vietnam. It's never a good thing when players can own their own servers and then upload custom content when you connect to them. It's not just players running their own servers. It's even worse when it's P2P crap like COD MW2. Players have found out how to do many bad things. Even on Black Ops 2, which are Treyarch servers, the hackers are injecting code into players PCs and making the game behave in ways It was never supposed to. smh

[@Boomken76]

3:30 it should be noted some of the bigger mod sites do check for maleware, thats why if you guna mod, you have to check the sites history if they dont check files. I say GTA5 cause there settiing are that if you load right into online you in a public lobby & could be targeted by hackers, the safe way its to load story mod then from there load a INVITE ONLY session, this make YOU the lobby host but everyone one in the group must load the same way to dodge hackers.

[@zaigan3332]

I used to work in support for a big online game. Dealt with a fair share of compromised accounts. Had a few instances where in the opening mail they gave their ID and password which I never asked for and didn't need, and my only thought was "dude no wonder your account got stolen". 😐

[@BigHeadClan]

The game that was doing mining in the background was CS:GO but specifically the ESEA*** client that was years and years ago now. They’ve now settled for a kernel level anti cheat… which is actually worse from a security perspective. lol

[@beige6620]

The mining-specific issue was with ESEA, not Faceit. Users could create a memory dump file of the ESEA client process and see that they were being mined. They agreed to a $1 million settlement in a consumer protection complaint by the state of New Jersey.

[@BigHeadClan]

@@beige6620 Ah right it was ESEA not Faceit

[@Gr3atWhiteHop3]

39 here,😂 i just watched The Matrix movies yesterday! I like gaming because it helps to escape reality, except nowdays where they keep pushing there political nonsense in games which is very annoying. Its destroying the gaming industry as well as the movie industry, get rid of DEI and ESG nonsense.

[@shattered_helix]

This is an EXTREMELY misleading title. None of these games carry an inherrant security risk, real or imagined. The security risk is in the mods, and if you're getting your mods from a reputable place, it's still a non-issue. I've been modding games for over 30 years, and not once, in THIRTY YEARS have I ever gotten a virus, malware, worm, keylogger, or anything that I didn't expect from a mod, because I actually pay attention to what I'm downloading and where I download it from.

[@acuilnos]

Agreed, on Jay's video about programs you should never install he was also enforcing the age old preconception of piracy = virus yet admitted that he never pirates programs so he doesn't actually have any idea on how common it is. Obviously there is an inherent risk, but as long as you do your due diligence and don't download from sketchy websites you will never get to the point where you have malware running on your system, especially when you consider most browsers these days will automatically flag suspicious files.

[@eracer1111]

@@acuilnos All true. But one of his main points was that kids are playing these games, and kids don't always have experience with or the understanding of the risks of purchasing mods. Like so much else today, parents need to monitor and protect their kids' online activities.

[@aceplaysgamesnetwork9566]

Not true. GTA Online for the pc exposes a lot of information that people can use to find out private information.

[@splurpy_]

except cs2... there are some pretty rough security exploits in cs2.

[@Steinhagen75]

The words "Carry" and "Risk" were chosen for a reason, lol. If they had said "These games ARE a security risk" then you would be correct, however they didn't and the only thing you proved here was that you don't fully understand the wording of the title. Something carrying a risk is a whole lot different than something being the risk. Mods are frequently part of the experience, hence the carried risk. It's possible that English isn't your first language, so I figured the difference was worth explaining.

[@Synthatic]

With Blizzard and WoW. I had 2 different friends back in the day of Wrath who had their accounts stolen and everything sold, and subsequently banned for advertising. These two people provided evidence to being the original owner of the accounts and had their accounts, and all items, restored. So Blizzard absolutely did restore banned accounts and stolen goods, but it was not as easy as just asking them to. You had to provide hard evidence that they could verify.

[@MarshallRawR]

There was a big malware issue with a couple of GTA V mods a few years ago, and sadly I got caught in the wind of it. With the community, we quickly went ahead and figured out what the malware was doing (stealing data) and where, contacted the hosting company, and we got the dude's server shutdown and stolen data removed. Of course, could have had backups, but it killed the malware's connection. Also helped people on how to remove it. Community just helped one-another.

[@fastamx069box8]

Great job Jay

[@karbonMAYne]

The Specialists is the half-life mod that you were thinking about. My friends and I were just talking about how insane that mod was.

[@KoolaidInMyCup]

The memories those were the days

[@KiraRaiGek]

lol I think any online game has some chance of messing with your system!!

[@remingtonrojas]

100 percent true but that information is pretty useless to 99% of people. What is more important is how easy it is.

[@Tx_Jay_]

​@@remingtonrojas How easy is it then? You speak from experience or hear say?

[@v-alfred]

True, being overly cautious won't be helpful aswell. All of these problems can easily be avoided if from the beginning your source is from "trusted place". I said trusted bc there's no safe place on the internet. 😉

[@riotman3579]

If they require you to be online to play that's already a big red flag

[@helenHTID]

@@riotman3579 gaming is already heading that way

[@joyl7842]

12:50 I think you forgot when D2R was popular. It's exactly between D3 and D4. Heck, it's still popular today because of patches. It still has the bots spamming Lobby-chat.

[@_Just_John]

My friend got his WoW account stolen back in the day. He was able to get it back in few months, but the person who stole the account managed to farm Deathcharger's Reins. He said "Not bad."

[@xchronox0]

The user is the biggest security risk.

[@leebojangles947]

This is why I am terrified of anything but just downloading the game. I know I am going go mess up one day and screw my self lol.

[@AnubisXYZ]

Security Rick is the guardian of the Citadel of Ricks. He attacc but he also defend :D

[@originalscreenname44]

Huh. Good thing my hatred of the likes of Activision, EA, Take-Two, and MOBAs keeps me basically away from the games on that list.

[@TekNeil]

Same. I've never allowed any of that Spyware onto any PC.

[@n77mee]

Never set the browser to download files automatically. It often happens that you simply move your mouse over a picture and it is downloaded to your computer without you knowing, and it can be infected.

[@Craig_N]

I got hacked in TBC. The best I could figure it was because I clicked on a picture of the DK creation screen and woke up the next morning to naked toons. They got everything out of the guild bank they could. Back then we had REAL Game Masters and he replaced all my gear. Luck for me they didn't gold spam or move my toons off the server.

[@Chalepastel]

remember the old adage: on the internet... nobody knows you're a dog

[@weclock]

>concerned about malware >has microsoft copilot

[@Grievous-]

Holy shit, Jay swore without being bleeped. 19:42

[@waynewebster4651]

"He's out of line, but he's right."

[@ReptilezDzn]

one of the few cases that mods are more secure than original was the older cods having third party clients, mw2 and up on steam were NOT safe at all and you risked being RCE while playing on the og game servers meanwhile Plutonium client fixed that + added custom weapons and servers that could use mods and they also had their own AC that was working better than most AC right now, i think i read not that long ago that coddevs are going to fix that(might already be fixed) the RCE exploit have existed for many years back.. just imagine how many did get affected.

[@user-si5vn1qt9c]

I had my WoW account stolen early on; characters were stripped of all items/gold. Blizzard restored the account fully to an earlier save. This was back during Burning Crusade and predated 2FA.

[@denveradams4909]

Just giving me more reasons to not use my $6,000.00 PC for gaming. Several years ago, I was a 9-1-1 Dispatcher. In our com center, we had a separate computer which monitored and controlled the city water/sewer systems. That PC had a 3 1/2" diskette drive. One of our dispatchers was bringing video games on diskette, into the office and playing them on that computer. The result was a virus which actually ate parts of the programming on that computer. The computer had to be taken back to the programmer; wiped clean then the water/sewer programs had to be re-installed. Lesson learned the hard way.

[@AntonioDal.]

Another big problem of games is their anti cheat system. A game with an advanced anti cheat system often has special access to more places in your PC than the average software. A virus which hijacks this game could theoretically gain even more access through the anti cheat system.

[@WeaselMon97]

11:53 I literally had the same experience with origins launcher I had some random guy hack into my account and play multiple seasons of apex legends, until I once wanted to play apex after a huuuuuuge break and realised, what happend.

[@sebastianandersson7708]

40+ dad here. Daughter age 5 just got a steamdeck as her PC. Feels safe knowing it's a linux core system and all games are aquired through steam.

[@kostihouse]

You were talking about the Specialist, a great half life mod, not a counterstrike mod. Maybe it had a source version, but i certainly played a lot of the half life 1 version.

[@gk750]

I remember my BF4 account got borrowed a few months after I stopped playing. I say "borrowed" because they didn't change the password or do anything other than play about five rounds over the span of a few days. I changed the password and never saw any more activity.

[@GTArajgaming]

with GTA V mods extend to single player as well, there's a huge part of the playerbase that simply play singleplayer for mods. the guy who made QuantV actually had code that could and would wipe drives, modders like julioNIB also hide DRM in his mods (which the virus worry gets worse when people crack the mod, you dunno what else they're doing to it)

[@Chrotesque]

@9:57 I cant speak of the US side of World of Warcraft, but in the EU we GMs worked daily on hacked accounts that were used in the manner you described for the purpose of giving them back to the owners. (as well as stopping them from spamming ofc)

[@GameUpOG]

Ove been using privacy for years. It's an amazing help. Especially if you forget to cancel subscription or only want a trial and bot get charged for the whole month

[@saigyl9149]

there was one expansion of WoW where the login screen would consume 100% of your processing power, i had mentioned it a few times during that expansion but everyone acted like i either had a trash computer or i was being stupid, but there was no excuse for that login prompt to utilize that much power

[@hyperox7601]

About that Matrix mod, there is a source mod called Double Action: Boogaloo where you can slow down time and do dives of all sorts.

[@xXTECHxKNIGHTXx]

I experienced getting my account stolen and Blizzard did return my account years ago, it was pretty much stripped but at least they didn't get all my gear. Changed to a much more secure password and an authenticator.

[@thatoneguyffs]

I got some crazy armor in halo 3 and a dude on the mic lost his stuff claiming it was armor given by bungie and first thing i did was log out for 2 years.

[@gruphius]

I once also had some Russian guy hack my Origin account. When I saw that I went like "wait, how'd he do that?", logged into my account (which still worked perfectly fine), saw that the dude was playing some game (I think it was Battlefield) and went like "wait a minute... What?". If I remember correctly I already had 2FA enabled back then any my PC wasn't infected. I just changed my password, reset 2FA and that was that. Never got hacked again. I sometimes have someone trying to login to other accounts of mine though, since one or two of my email addresses appeared in some leaks a few years ago.

[@victorm316]

My sons blizzard account got hacked. Plays call of duty. The hacker Spent $150. Got it back. permanently banned my son's call of duty account. He was so upset. He is done with cod. Never will he play it again. Spent a lot of money on it. Lost it all.

[@debraj-kayal]

If you exit Valorant, the anti cheat software Vanguard still runs in the background. Other games also use such software but the difference is that they can be closed from the control centre and when we relaunch the game, the anti cheat software will start running, but for valorant, it shows as a driver and we cannot exit the software. We have to restart the computer to run the game again. Also the data centre for Riot is tied with Tencent in China.

[@verrueckteriwan]

So the mod you are talking about in 6:00 is called "The Specialists" and was a mod for Half-Life / Counterstrike 1.6 (or Gold Source, not the "new" Source engine aka Half life 2)

[@panzershock441]

I really wanted to play Rising Storm 2 a while back, but from what I understand the only servers up are like 50% "MEGA SERVER" and like 30% fake servers that just reroute you to Mega servers. Apparently Mega Servers will preinstall mods full of malware onto your pc while loading in. So I uninstalled risingstorm2 and never looked at it again.

[@dawidcislo0]

I remember that one time, my cousin's steam account got hacked, It was sold, and the new user changed the name, but didn't remove the original email. We just reset the password, got the reset code on the OG email and bam! Account was back in our hands. Some hackers aren't very bright.

[@rremnar]

Wouldn't have happened if you use a authenticator, and very strong passwords of randomized letters, numbers, and symbols.

[@Scahla]

You touched on some games that ran crypto mining. theirs a huge market right now with all these "anti cheat" software that run at kernal level on your PC which is a huge security risk. Only takes one threat actor to access your PC due to mod or developer negligence and your PC is compromised.

[@casey360360]

I've had my Steam account hacked once, for my CS:S and TF2 items. Sucks, because I had literal thousands of dollars worth of item's in TF2 and I had to start over. Steam was really cool about un-banning my account, it doesn't even show that my accounts had a VAC ban before. Largely because I was able to verify every single IP I've ever logged in from with their support. Took 4 months to get the account back though...