Among us Hack waves

[ramski73]

there is literally no way to play in public lobbies with out a red dude breaking the game advertising some instagram account whic is prob a scam and crashing the server

[Leadsong (Glaed)]

Originally posted by DeGugs:

Originally posted by Without A Penny (Glaed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWTj2ByX2U Best way to deal with him.

That wont work. We don't even know if these hackers actually have anything to do with this "Erin Loris" channel or discord they claim to be promoting. Furthermore, banning them from youtube or discord for that matter won't stop them from continually hacking Among Us.

The only way to stop them is for the developers to patch this hack and perhaps have a net log allowing them to ban the IP address of anyone doing the hack.

Perhaps it won't but what other options are there?

[Dust in my bowel movement]

Havent seem them once, dont think its that big of a deal but its funny seeing little kids get scared that "threy got hacked". The community is fast to dox the guy and send plenty of death threats

[Leadsong (Glaed)]

Originally posted by meth addict:

Havent seem them once, dont think its that big of a deal but its funny seeing little kids get scared that "threy got hacked". The community is fast to dox the guy and send plenty of death threats

The Doxing is pretty bad, but kind of his fault for promoting his social with a hack that disrupts people playing a game they paid for (if on pc). It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ all around.

[DeGugs]

Originally posted by Without A Penny (Glaed):

Perhaps it won't but what other options are there?

Again, we can only wait for the dev's action. We can expedite their action by not playing the game until the issue is resovled. They won't ignore the issue if it's killing their player base.

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Originally posted by @R+5:

they are waves: it stops after a while. just change the room you are playing in. there are come issues with starting a "match", which are likely from devs trying to track the issue and patching the issue.

"Just start another match"

I did. for 20 minutes straight.

Originally posted by @R+5:

Originally posted by Pepega:

why isn't he banned yet, he keeps advertising his discord surely its easy to track him down

What about more possibilities: the hacker is obviously trolling, and not because of spamming the "vote for trump" messages, but how the hack alternates between those messages and a discord account.

if you had a discord account, and you are aware that unwanted or negative attention can create problems for your account, why would you try to promote it with spam using a hack? a hacker could actually want to try to drive attention to that forum for a different reason, and may be unrelated to the admin(s).

Also, no matter who is the hacker, the hack is obviously automated. maybe its working from a computer he or she doesnt owns, or maybe its a worm injected in the servers of the game.

This is the type of comment someone makes when they don't know anything about "hacking" or security, but want to post a comment in a thread bc they have some emotional attachment to the game or the devs and want to white knight for it instead of actually have issues addressed.

[@R+5]

Originally posted by Dr John A. Zoidberg:

This has been going on for over 24 hours now. I recommend not playing Among Us until it's fixed to insure you don't get hacked yourself. Better to be safe than sorry.

unlikely to happen. if the players were a target, it would be easier for a hacker to do the attack silently without creating a show. hacker is trolling the devs

[@R+5]

Originally posted by Bird Law Expert:

I did. for 20 minutes straight.

Just be patient, or maybe change server location. ATM seems to be more about luck to see the messages or not. My guess this is because devs are trying to fix this without "turning off" the game to avoid losing $.

[offlinesoul123]

i hate this guy
but i love among us anybody wanna play among us

[PwnerMeister]

Does this game even have any kind of sanity checking? A lot of this could be fixed if game clients (the players) did not have so much control over every aspect of the game. It sounds like the game doesn't even check to see if a player is the host (hence any player can change any setting with the right tool). Maybe everything needs to be kept track by the host player client but then that might add too much overhead for such a simple game.

The game probably allows any player to broadcast any command/msg with no restriction which is why all this "hacking" is possible. I put "hacking" in double quotes because I think most of these "hackers" probably couldn't hack their own toaster oven let alone a game. We used to call them script kiddies as an insult. They probably are just downloading some program written by someone and have no idea how it works.

I highly doubt anyone is getting a virus or malware from hackers in the game. Just because someone is able to control your character on screen or make you say something doesn't mean your computer is compromised. That would be a sign of something far worse. I think out of all the posts i've seen, i've only seen one person post something on reddit about how his shortcut to the among us executable was renamed. For all I know that person probably had mods downloaded and got their computer compromised through some other way or someone was messing with them.

[MeowDread]

Originally posted by PwnerMeister:

Does this game even have any kind of sanity checking? A lot of this could be fixed if game clients (the players) did not have so much control over every aspect of the game. It sounds like the game doesn't even check to see if a player is the host (hence any player can change any setting with the right tool). Maybe everything needs to be kept track by the host player client but then that might add too much overhead for such a simple game.

The game probably allows any player to broadcast any command/msg with no restriction which is why all this "hacking" is possible. I put "hacking" in double quotes because I think most of these "hackers" probably couldn't hack their own toaster oven let alone a game. We used to call them script kiddies as an insult. They probably are just downloading some program written by someone and have no idea how it works.

I highly doubt anyone is getting a virus or malware from hackers in the game. Just because someone is able to control your character on screen or make you say something doesn't mean your computer is compromised. That would be a sign of something far worse. I think out of all the posts i've seen, i've only seen one person post something on reddit about how his shortcut to the among us executable was renamed. For all I know that person probably had mods downloaded and got their computer compromised through some other way or someone was messing with them.

basically what you are saying is it could be fixed if most of the game's control was given to the server instead of the clients?

[PwnerMeister]

Exactly

[@R+5]

for a hacker, it matters little if the client or the servers are vulnerable: what matters is to find the weak point. it wouldnt change things for security, but it could downgrade the experience for players since it would probably be harder to find matches.

if devs decided to create matches from the client, it was likely to allow more players and reduce costs from servers.

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

so this is malcolm reynold in form of amonng us huh interesting now we need some idiot whos gona spend some time to create watchdog for this game and everything do full cycle

[PwnerMeister]

Originally posted by @R+5:

for a hacker, it matters little if the client or the servers are vulnerable: what matters is to find the weak point. it wouldnt change things for security, but it could downgrade the experience for players since it would probably be harder to find matches.

if devs decided to create matches from the client, it was likely to allow more players and reduce costs from servers.

Most of the "hackers" are using tools that they didn't write and have no idea how they work. The ones "hacking" are not the ones finding the weak points. Someone else did that work for them. Most of them using these tools probably are not very computer or tech savvy either.

As for switching some of the control of the game over to the host, there are games out there already that handle some of the things on the server end rather then the client end (I would dare say a lot of competitive games do things like that rather then leave it all up to the client). it would not be any harder to find matches or cost anything if more of the control of the game was handled by the host. Players can still run the server when they host a game just like they do now. The only issue is performance and latency, and what to do if the host disconnects. In fact they probably would have to rewrite their network code to fix this issue. Right now if a host disconnects, someone else becomes the host. It's probably why the client is given such full control as it is. Normally, the other players are prevented from doing nefarious things but a modified game client that bypasses these checks can do whatever they want and every player client in the game trusts whatever network communication is sent by any other player client.

My idea is that the host would keep track of player coordinates (so you can't like warp around). I figure each player client is sending it's position to all other players. This needs to pass through the host, which would then make sure that you aren't warping. It also needs to check to make sure if PlayerA says something, it actually is coming from PlayerA. Settings should only be changeable by the host and not by any other player clients. Clients should keep track of each player's skins, hats, etc... so that would be handled on the client side so nobody can change their skin.

[EINO]

Originally posted by Bird Law Expert:

Originally posted by @R+5:

they are waves: it stops after a while. just change the room you are playing in. there are come issues with starting a "match", which are likely from devs trying to track the issue and patching the issue.

"Just start another match"

I did. for 20 minutes straight.

Originally posted by @R+5:

What about more possibilities: the hacker is obviously trolling, and not because of spamming the "vote for trump" messages, but how the hack alternates between those messages and a discord account.

if you had a discord account, and you are aware that unwanted or negative attention can create problems for your account, why would you try to promote it with spam using a hack? a hacker could actually want to try to drive attention to that forum for a different reason, and may be unrelated to the admin(s).

Also, no matter who is the hacker, the hack is obviously automated. maybe its working from a computer he or she doesnt owns, or maybe its a worm injected in the servers of the game.

This is the type of comment someone makes when they don't know anything about "hacking" or security, but want to post a comment in a thread bc they have some emotional attachment to the game or the devs and want to white knight for it instead of actually have issues addressed.

you said it perfectly