Remove all Discord CDN links

[Kerry]

The chat program Discord is a known dumping ground for malware and malicious bots, and is widely used for command and control of serious malware including credential stealers, ransomware, and other things. Some malware can even use Discord to crash other players' games.

Sophos, an anti-malware publisher and research group, reports that the greatest amount of malware they've found on the Discord Content Distribution Network is, quote: "credential and personal information theft, a wide variety of stealer malware as well as more versatile RATs."

This means software that steals bank account info and Steam account info.

So by allowing games that link with Discord to run on Steam, ValveCorp is inadvertently putting their users and all the games on this platform at serious risk of catastrophic loss.

I believe that these games should be sanctioned or heavily restricted in their capability to link with Discord, and all links that lead to a Discord server should be considered a direct link to malware.

Source: https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/07/22/malware-increasingly-targets-discord-for-abuse/

EDIT: I will not allow this thread to be derailed by any method. Attempts to bring up previous threads are obvious attempts to derail a thread and will be treated as such.

Each creator who makes a post that attempts to derail this thread will result in one singular chain of action:

Mute, block, report. You're not worthy of my time if you keep trying to derail the thread and troll me. You're not going to get a rise out of me.

EDIT: I'm sick and tired of some people (not naming names) being so stuck-up and closed-minded that they cannot admit that other people have different experiences.

The technically-impossible happens all the time. Just because YOU haven't seen it happen, doesn't mean weird crap doesn't happen!

[Kerry]

Publicado originalmente por KalCuey:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

The point is, I do not have malware. Because I don't click on shady links or fall for nitro scams.

now, now

none of that logic stuff allowed in here!

we all know it is never our fault when we do something that has a negative effect, "they" should have protected us :smilepoop:

If you simply want to insult me and insinuate that I am stupid or naive, then you are not welcome here.

I do not have to sit here and be insulted over and over and over by people who insist upon saying that I click every link that comes my way or that I fall for scams.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

The point is, I do not have malware. Because I don't click on shady links or fall for nitro scams.

NEITHER. DO. I.

If you simply want to insult me and insinuate that I am stupid or naive, then you are not welcome here.

Your discord account didn't get hacked out of nowhere. That doesn't happen. You probably got offered a nitro gift that wasn't legit or something. It's not stupidity, it's just not looking at the link close enough.

[Kerry]

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

NEITHER. DO. I.

If you simply want to insult me and insinuate that I am stupid or naive, then you are not welcome here.

it's just not looking at the link close enough.

That's stupidity. Or downright negligence.

I examine every link someone throws at me. I do not fall for stupid stuff like you seem to assume I do.

Why the fudge can't you simply accept my word on the matter?

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Your discord account didn't get hacked out of nowhere. That doesn't happen. You probably got offered a nitro gift that wasn't legit or something. It's not stupidity, it's just not looking at the link close enough.

I examine every link someone throws at me. I do not fall for stupid stuff like you seem to assume I do.

Why the fudge can't you simply accept my word on the matter?

Because you seem to be implying a reality where Discord accounts get hacked out of nowhere, which DOES NOT HAPPEN.

[Kerry]

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

I examine every link someone throws at me. I do not fall for stupid stuff like you seem to assume I do.

Why the fudge can't you simply accept my word on the matter?

Because you seem to be implying a reality where Discord accounts get hacked out of nowhere, which DOES NOT HAPPEN.

EXCEPT. IT. HAPPENED.

Now if you can't be bothered to cease laughing at me, then please unsubscribe and leave this thread.

I am trying to be serious here, cybersecurity is important after all. Yet you think it's funny.

To be brutally honest, from your reactions one might think I just admitted to believing in something that doesn't exist.

I think you're all insane.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Because you seem to be implying a reality where Discord accounts get hacked out of nowhere, which DOES NOT HAPPEN.

EXCEPT. IT. HAPPENED.

Now if you can't be bothered to cease laughing at me, then please unsubscribe and leave this thread. I am trying to be serious here, cybersecurity is important after all.

Yet you think it's funny.

If you were trying to be serious, you wouldn't be claiming the article says Discord is the problem. You won't say that Discord is 98% malware. You wouldn't be even suggesting that Steam chat is anywhere near as versatile as Discord.

You aren't trying to have a serious discussion, you are stating something you want to happen and ignoring anything that goes against it.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Because you seem to be implying a reality where Discord accounts get hacked out of nowhere, which DOES NOT HAPPEN.

EXCEPT. IT. HAPPENED.

Now if you can't be bothered to cease laughing at me, then please unsubscribe and leave this thread. I am trying to be serious here, and you think it's funny.

Okay, let me back up. How did you find out your account was hacked? Did people tell you it started spamming things or could you simply just not log back in?

[white but not quite]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

cybersecurity is important after all

I don't use Discord out of principle. Have you heard of OpenFeint btw?

[Kerry]

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

EXCEPT. IT. HAPPENED.

Now if you can't be bothered to cease laughing at me, then please unsubscribe and leave this thread. I am trying to be serious here, and you think it's funny.

Okay, let me back up. How did you find out your account was hacked? Did people tell you it started spamming things or could you simply just not log back in?

I watched as the hacker pasted everything. I deleted as fast as I could, but it kept happening.
Not only did the bastard keep spamming porn, but they kept spamming @everyone.

@everyone @everyone @everyone.

Porn here

@everyone @everyone @everyone

And it wasn't just any porn either. It was child porn. Disgusting.

[Kerry]

Publicado originalmente por cute lil green dragon :з:

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

cybersecurity is important after all

I don't use Discord out of principle. Have you heard of OpenFeint btw?

No I haven't, let me do a google search.

[white but not quite]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por cute lil green dragon :з:

I don't use Discord out of principle. Have you heard of OpenFeint btw?

No I haven't, let me do a google search.

In 2011, OpenFeint was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other statutory violations. According to a news report "OpenFeint's business plan included accessing and disclosing personal information without authorization to mobile-device application developers, advertising networks and web-analytic vendors that market mobile applications".

OpenFeint was founded by Jason Citron, who later founded Discord.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Okay, let me back up. How did you find out your account was hacked? Did people tell you it started spamming things or could you simply just not log back in?

I watched as the hacker pasted everything. I deleted as fast as I could, but it kept happening.
Not only did the bastard keep spamming porn, but they kept spamming @everyone.

@everyone @everyone @everyone.

Porn here

@everyone @everyone @everyone

And it wasn't just any porn either. It was child porn. Disgusting.

Sounds like you bruteforced by someone looking to screw with you then, if you truly did not click anything shady. What the hacker was doing makes me believe it was a personal attack, since if you fell for a scam, they'd just use your account to spam scam links.

[Kerry]

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

I watched as the hacker pasted everything. I deleted as fast as I could, but it kept happening.
Not only did the bastard keep spamming porn, but they kept spamming @everyone.

@everyone @everyone @everyone.

Porn here

@everyone @everyone @everyone

And it wasn't just any porn either. It was child porn. Disgusting.

Sounds like you bruteforced by someone looking to screw with you then, if you truly did not click anything shady. What the hacker was doing makes me believe it was a personal attack, since if you fell for a scam, they'd just use your account to spam scam links.

It was a personal attack, and I used my password manager so bruteforcing couldn't have occurred.

Also this was the latest and last of a long string of attacks by assumedly, the same bastard.

I don't know his real name, only his username: "Alpha".

[Boblin the Goblin]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Sounds like you bruteforced by someone looking to screw with you then, if you truly did not click anything shady. What the hacker was doing makes me believe it was a personal attack, since if you fell for a scam, they'd just use your account to spam scam links.

It was a personal attack, and I used my password manager so bruteforcing couldn't have occurred.

That isn't how that works.

Bruteforcing is literally throwing ♥♥♥♥ at the wall until it sticks. A password manager doesn't protect against it.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Kerry Freeman:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Sounds like you bruteforced by someone looking to screw with you then, if you truly did not click anything shady. What the hacker was doing makes me believe it was a personal attack, since if you fell for a scam, they'd just use your account to spam scam links.

It was a personal attack, and I used my password manager so bruteforcing couldn't have occurred.

Bruteforcing is guessing your password over and over. Unless you changed your password constantly.