new scam going on

[Blue Dragon]

empty your steam wallet now.... people are getting hacked over the community market. I had my wallet emptied today lost all my funds on steam. reported to steam that I didn't even go to the market and buy something . They say there is nothing they can do.

[Chika Ogiue]

Postat inițial de PaulKrawitz:

Why would anyone keep money in their wallet?

There's always money in my wallet because I can't spend it. The amount is literally too small being that it is a decimal and my currency doesn't do decimals. But Valve still use this decimal amount in the market pricing. It's a bit annoying really as it's impossible to avoid if you do anything with the market.

[Chika Ogiue]

Postat inițial de PaulKrawitz:

So... everything is priced like ¥1, ¥100, ¥1000?

1 JPY is the smallest unit that can be spent. There's a smaller unit, "sen", which is no longer used in physical transactions, and Japanese companies if they use this unit will round up/down to the nearest 1 yen. Valve don't do this rounding off, so we get stuck with unspendable money. It's also why, when yen pricing was first introduced to Steam, it was impossible for us to purchase. Valve had not removed the decimals from the store, and payment processors couldn't handle it. But they still never removed it from their own market place.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

A) Victim dumb enough to login to scam site. Victim complains screaming hack, victim fails to realize they shouldn't be logging into scam sites mindlessly.

B) Victim dumb enough to download things they don't know, nor understand what they're downloading, and installing/running, get virus on their system, blames others instead of own faults.

Can get email with virus attached, discord sending you a virus, you surfing for *free* things, maybe even smash buttons, and say oops well doesn't matter I worry about it later kind of thing.

[N3tRunn3r]

Wrong!

On some day you had got fooled/tricked by scammers so to given away your steam account credentials on some fake and/or phishing website/link literally, so even the QR got cloned ..

If you logged in into a scam/phishing site, you gave away all of your Steam Account credentials and login informations. A bot creates and places an API-key into your Steam account and therefore get semi-full access to it. This API-key in this case can be seen as a legitimiate "trojan", and/or as a remote access for developers.

Even your SteamGuard Codes / 2FA get become cloned for them ..

Hundreds and thousands of Steam Accounts become hijacked like this on a DAILY BASIS, cuz of greed .. using account credentials and security measures without a brain ..

Here, this is my version and work through that list, if you havent yet:

# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
⚠️ YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN COMPROMISED ⚠️
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #

Stay cool!! They have gained access to your Steam account!!

You have been fooled/tricked by scammers/hijackers to give away your login credentials on some fake and/or phishing website, link or similar!!

DO "NOT" TRADE

Many scams try and scare you into trading your items and they become hijacked !!
Hijacked money and items will NOT be recovered by Steam Support since 2015 !!

Steam Item Restoration Policy

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3B6E-B322-2400-8D24

⚠️ Act now immediately and do following steps "ASAP" ⚠️

1. Scan for malware:
   https://www.eset.com/int/home/online-scanner/
   
   
2. Change your E-Mail Account password from a trusted/clean computer or device!!
   
   
3. Check, if your E-Mail address and Phone number are still correct:
   https://store.steampowered.com/account/
   
   
4. Revoke/Delete the API key, there should be a blank field in the APIKEY section:
   https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey
   
   
5. Immediately deauthorize all devices - this logs you out of Steam:
   https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
   
   
6. Change Steam Account password from a trusted/clean computer or device!!
   
   
7. Generate new backup codes:
   https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
   
   
8. Deauthorize all devices again:
   https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
   
   
9. Re-check the APIKEY section & report all involved scammer/hijacker on associated platform/s!!

How to Report a Scammer, Hijacker or Phisher

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4D07-D139-587C-2080

1. Report Player
   
2. They are involved in theft, scamming, fraud or other malicious activity
   
3. They are engaged in item theft or scamming
   or: They are trying to steal my account or information
   
4. Submit this account for review
   
5. "your personal text"

Recovering a Stolen or Hijacked Steam Account

• https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithAccountStolen
  
  
• https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0A94-F308-34A5-1988

To Recover, if you don't have access to the account

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1126288560

Scam FAQ (Confidence Scams and Trade Scams)

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B


Also check from where your account was being accessed from:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/SteamLoginHistory


Open a Support Ticket, Steam Support might help localizing the hijacker:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpAccountDataQuestion


Here is more account related data to find:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/


Good Luck !!

[J4MESOX4D]

Whatever scam you've been affected by certainly isn't new.

[Vertigo]

Postat inițial de Cray:

Postat inițial de Tito Shivan:

You probably got phished. Have you recently logged into Steam somewhere?

Finally someone adds the apt "probably". Most of the time it's phishing. Sometimes it's not.

Heck, source/steam combo had a security hole where attackers could craft a game invite which, when clicked, could literally take over the whole computer (remote code execution). steam/valve sat on that for two years before properly addressing it. Two. Years.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-fixes-steam-invite-exploit-that-could-let-hackers-remotely-access-players-pcs

"Two years ago, secret club member @floesen_ reported a remote code execution flaw affecting all source engine games. It can be triggered through a Steam invite. This has yet to be patched, and Valve is preventing us from publicly disclosing it."

I'll say it again: Two years. Words fall short.

Just throwing it in there - it's not always phishing and it's not always something the user did. It's quite rare, but it happens. And steam/valve have a history of being very opaque about these things and not publicly disclosing it, that doesn't help either.

And how do we know that this flaw really existed, and isn't just something that group made up?
I only found their own demonstration of this supposed flaw.
No Independent one.

Everyone can fake a video.
And all information about this flaw is from just their own source.
That is not a good standard.

Usually flaws are reproduced by many different sources Independent from each other.

[m662]

Postat inițial de Vertigo:

Postat inițial de Cray:

Finally someone adds the apt "probably". Most of the time it's phishing. Sometimes it's not.

Heck, source/steam combo had a security hole where attackers could craft a game invite which, when clicked, could literally take over the whole computer (remote code execution). steam/valve sat on that for two years before properly addressing it. Two. Years.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-fixes-steam-invite-exploit-that-could-let-hackers-remotely-access-players-pcs

"Two years ago, secret club member @floesen_ reported a remote code execution flaw affecting all source engine games. It can be triggered through a Steam invite. This has yet to be patched, and Valve is preventing us from publicly disclosing it."

I'll say it again: Two years. Words fall short.

Just throwing it in there - it's not always phishing and it's not always something the user did. It's quite rare, but it happens. And steam/valve have a history of being very opaque about these things and not publicly disclosing it, that doesn't help either.

And how do we know that this flaw really existed, and isn't just something that group made up?
I only found their own demonstration of this supposed flaw.
No Independent one.

Everyone can fake a video.
And all information about this flaw is from just their own source.
That is not a good standard.

Usually flaws are reproduced by many different sources Independent from each other.

Because those flaws are confirmed by the company
https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/9423/Valvesoftware.html

Specifically:
https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-30481

There are no known current active vulnerabilities on Steam as platform as long as you are patched. However zerodays can always exists but there are no OSINT rumors or reports currently.

[CrunchyWater]

steam security are trash

[CrunchyWater]

they tell you with words not action policy this policy that damn how much money they have right now just to get hacker slide, this worlds is about connection and money. sad reality.

[CrunchyWater]

they should just banned there ip address forever so they cant connect to the internet

[CrunchyWater]

and tell the internet company to check their activity scamming but the society wants money by cybersecurity

[CrunchyWater]

not everyone has experience of being scamming. new people often get scammed ive experience it but for the newbie get ready for it cause steam doesnt tell you that in the first place so steam also is playing the role

[Crazy Tiger]

Postat inițial de CrunchyWater:

steam security are trash

Nah, security on Steam is good. People giving away their login credentials is the problem.

Postat inițial de CrunchyWater:

they should just banned there ip address forever so they cant connect to the internet

IP bans do very little. Many people have dynamic IPs, for example.

Postat inițial de CrunchyWater:

not everyone has experience of being scamming. new people often get scammed ive experience it but for the newbie get ready for it cause steam doesnt tell you that in the first place so steam also is playing the role

Steam has FAQs and the like about scams, they even get updated frequently. Something people seem to forget to check.

It's a users own responsibility to ensure they practise "internet security 101".

[Vertigo]

Postat inițial de m662:

Postat inițial de Vertigo:

And how do we know that this flaw really existed, and isn't just something that group made up?
I only found their own demonstration of this supposed flaw.
No Independent one.

Everyone can fake a video.
And all information about this flaw is from just their own source.
That is not a good standard.

Usually flaws are reproduced by many different sources Independent from each other.

Because those flaws are confirmed by the company
https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/9423/Valvesoftware.html

Specifically:
https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-30481

There are no known current active vulnerabilities on Steam as platform as long as you are patched. However zerodays can always exists but there are no OSINT rumors or reports currently.

Okay, just because you can't read sources, doesn't mean that no-one can.

These links are using Twitter and YouTube as a reference, not valve!

Please do yourself a favor and learn to check your links.

[m662]

Postat inițial de CrunchyWater:

they should just banned there ip address forever so they cant connect to the internet

You obviously have no idea how internet infrastructure works if you think an IP ban alone would have any results on successful threat mitigation.

If it was that simple we would have widely adopted that strategy as industry. Instead we are moving more and more away from IP blocks because they do not work. It is the same why blocking spammers as end users has almost none effect they will just lease another or hijack some others connection or address to continue. The IP blocks are mostly quick response actions while fortification is being done based on signature detection or rule-set triggering.

IP abuse reports takes most times 72 hours before they can be investigated by the supplying ISP. In which cases the criminals already moved there operations to another point. Not to mention the resource cost in CPU required to check all connections against an disallow, blacklist. In fact overloading poor designed firewalls with to much block triggers is a very common form of DDoS attack.

It takes less than 5 minutes to auto-deploy a bot operated payload server and command control environment (C2) and with advancements in A.I this only gets faster.