2011-09-28, 10:17 AM
MissingLink Wrote:Yes it's strange how many people prefer to believe that there must be a widespread maplestory keylogger written by some genius maplestory hacker that self-loads and self-installs without the users intervention merely by visiting some site, is undetectable by any antivirus, antiwhatever, can bypass any firewall, etc ,etc. (despite zero evidence of this)...Because it is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be some amazing widespread keylogger. Keyloggers are NOT hard to make, and just as easily able to avoid detection from any mainstream virus scanner. Firewalls are a non-issue because anyone competent would make the keylogger a client connecting to a server, not the other way around (or just send logs through email.)
and yet they find the idea that some pro Chinese hacker/goldsite group may have found a login bypass onto the gameservers ridiculous.
If there was some hacker that was able to bypass logins, Nexon would know about it and shut down their game until it was fixed. You act as if Nexon is stupid as pineapple, which they aren't. It's the general population who continue to download programs that they think are safe and are not. Just looking on this forum, there are two programs on the front page of this section that have gone through zero scrutiny and have been downloaded by people. Do they know those programs are safe? No. Yet they continue to download them and praise the author for their generous contribution to the community.
I have done experiments in the past with this sort of trickery, and have been surprised with the amount of people who actually fell for it. (Hint: Over 600 accounts in one day, when posting it on three different websites, one of which was a community of "uber l337 haxx0rz")
So knock it off with all this bullpomegranate about some amazing hackers who are able to read the Nexon database and hack all of your accounts. Pay attention to what the pineapple you download, and exercise at least a minimal amount of caution, and you won't get "hacked."