- Forensic report compiled by the research collective behind the takedown of Block Blasters— Credit: 1989 on X/Twitter.
- G DATA Report.
For anybody wondering what is going on with $CANCER live stream… my life was saved for whole 24 hours untill someone tuned in my stream and got me to download verified game on Steam
After this I was drained for over 32,000$ USD of my creator fees earned on pumpdotfun and everything quickly changed. I can’t breathe, I can’t think, im completely lost on what is going to happen next, can’t shake the feeling that it is my fault that I might end up on street again or not have anything to eat in few days… my heart wants to jump out of my mouth and it hurts.
I won’t rewatch this myself but I have added a clip from the stream after I noticed what has happened.
also I have succesfully (CTOed) my creator rewards and they have been redirected to safe device.
Source: rastaland.TV on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
More context:
Yesterday a video game streamer named rastalandTV inadvertently livestreamed themselves being a victim of a cryptodraining campaign.
This particular spearphishing campaign is extraordinarily heinous because RastaLand is suffering from Stage-4 Sarcoma and is actively seeking donations for their cancer treatment. They lost $30,000 of the money which was designated for their cancer treatment. In the steam clip their friend tries to console them while they cry out, “I am broken now.”
They were contacted by an unknown person who requested they play their video game demo (downloadable from Steam). In exchange for RastaLand playing their video game demo on stream, they would financially compensate them.
Unfortunately, the Steam game was actually a cryptodrainer masquerading as a legitimate video game.
Source: vx-underground on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
Source: ZachXBT on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
They kept 30k on the same computer as their gaming device where they download random stuff from commenters. Almost every large YouTuber has had their google account hijacked this way, you should be able to designate a threat level of a device, and warn you if you have too much stored.
I’m not blaming the victim, I blame the system for not making it stupidly obvious that this is bad cybersecurity.
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I have given up on the average user being willing and able to take proper care of their cybersecurity.
At this point, I blame the software, at least in part. Games should run sandboxed, by either the OS or whatever platform/launcher invoked their execution.
But currently video games love to install themselves with kernel privileges, and their users will even defend that practice, so there’s that.
yeah honestly this doesn’t surprise me anymore. The average PC user doesn’t even do backups. I mean I have Nix automatically backup my stuff because I, like the average user, am bad at doing it manually.
Should you keep Crypto on your daily driver PC? probably not. I’m not an expert on that crap but for me that would be a safe assumption based on the sheer amount of scams I’ve read about. And you’re right that games especially should be sandboxed - this is why I run steam via flatpak.
It’s because people don’t want to pay for things they don’t see the immediate value of. It’s the same as why companies often skim on IT security. I tell people they should just get Backblaze to backup their computer if they don’t want to buy hardware and deal with backups but the 10 euro a month is somehow too much. These are not the people who will spend the money to buy a second computer or a hardware wallet to store crypto.