The Darkest side of Minecraft Multiplayer

On the 16th of January 2022 a 19 year old student that plays Hypixel Skyblock woke up defined 22 000 gone from his virtual Wallet account which was all of his savings for the first few minutes he was in shock and didn’t know what’s going on he also noticed that other

Accounts of his are not working either but when he lured onto Skyblock which if you didn’t know is the biggest MMORPG in Minecraft and found out that all of his coins and valuable items are gone he twittly realized what had happened to him just the night prior he was sent a

Skyblock mod by an old high school friend that had recently moved from the country the friend told him that this mod is a tool mod for SkyBlock that’s definitely worth using as it made some aspects of the game easier like fishing or Arch and flipping he did not question

It much and simply downloaded the mod dreaded into his mods folder and lured on he was a bit suspicious because this QR lmod changed nothing in his game but assumed it simply isn’t working or out of date and forgot about it removed it from his mods folder and went to sleep

But of course this was no qol mod it was a virus designed to give somebody access to his entire computer now what makes this different from any other virus is that it is included within a DOT jar file instead of a usual dot exe file most people read everywhere online that

You should not run suspicious.exe files because those can harm your PC but what the majority of people don’t know is that a jar file is an exe file if you put it inside your Minecraft mods folder and press launch your PC runs all the code inside that file which means the

Virus mod could do anything the hackers want like date your Minecraft session ID and in some cases all the passwords that you’ve saved on Google Chrome which was where the guy who lost 22 000 had his coinbase account information saved he was also locked out of his account for

The next three weeks this is only one small store worry out of many and some are even more serious and were brought to us directly by victims who wanted to share their story and after hearing about them we decided to do a little bit of investigation and the things we found were disturbing

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All the earnings he gets 50 50 with him if he helps him steal his friend’s money and starblock items and sadly that kind of operations seems to be something very common in the Stabler Community nowadays so let me explain to you the structure of this entire operation the whole thing

Worked sort of like a pyramid scheme at the very top will be a very small group of malware programmers who actually made the malicious mods that are sent out to people then these malware programmers will sell their mod or agree to split profits with a larger group of people

Who usually are their friends or their server admins which all referred to as ringed leaders sometimes the programmers can also be their own ringed leaders but it depends Case by case below them are a group of people who want to earn style block coins usually they are the ring

Leader’s friends or people well known in the hacking Community who will try to convince others into downloading the malicious mods and running them and these people all refer to as minions these minions are usually impressionable and yarn themselves and will send the mod to their friends or other victims to

Trick them into downloading it with the promise of also taking a shot of the prophets and this is what happened in our opening story these minions usually never interact with the programmers and sometimes they don’t even know them so the rain leaders act as a middleman now

What exactly happens when you run these mods whenever a victim is strict and they run the mod by putting it in their mod folder and starting the game their information is sent directly to the programmer but that’s basically whatever they want with whatever the mod Steals

And it can get pretty scary this could include session IDs All Chrome passwords and information Discord tokens your IP and your home address and Hardware information and could even do things like take all the screenshots and images you have stored on your computer or taking pictures and videos from your

Webcam which gets used for blackmailing the victim there’s really no limit to what can be done here and Windows Defender or any antivirus will never pick up on this because all of the malicious mods are totally different and aren’t recognized some mods may even embed themselves into programs and run

Every single time APC has started without the user knowing allowing them to gather personal information or use the computer for other malicious purposes like email access to bypass to fa and places passwords were stolen from even after someone realizes they got hacked and even if they removed the mod from their computer

Throughout the process little cuts of stolen coins and money are given out to everyone involved all was the people at the very top who are profiting the most can stay relatively free of any kind of consequences since they aren’t the ones directly Distributing malware to the victims instead it’s the impressionable

Minions at the very bottom of the pyramid basically committing serious cyber crimes the kind of cyber crimes that they can face prison time for or very steep fines if they’re adults and possibly having a criminal record from such a young age which can ruin your life some people really don’t know the

Seriousness of spreading malware that takes over entire computers and personal data and developing it is even worse and punished Harder by the law some of these minions may not even know the full extent of what is being stolen and may think it is only Skyblock coins but it gets worse the minions are

Generally very young people sometimes as young as 11 years old who are both much more impressionable than older people and much more likely to have other impressionable friends who they will send the mod to a large pile of easy coins sounds so much more appealing to a

Child than an internet friend who they probably don’t care that much about or a gold mate that they’ll forget about in six month time sometimes the fake mods themselves don’t even look that malicious it’s common for the programmers to Simply take existing mods like SBA or other Niche mods and simply

Add their own sections of code that performs all the malicious actions when the mod is first loaded the victim may not even know they are hacked until later on it’s also very common to see people spend hours convincing potential Minions that the mods they’re sharing are actually legitimate and will say

Things like you cannot get hacked through a.jar file which is obviously very false the minions may even run the mod themselves see it’s safe because the hacker purposefully doesn’t instantly hurt them and then becomes convinced that it’s safe to share to friends without any profit incentive at all

Furthermore any sort of data stolen from the victims and sometimes the minions themselves can be used to Blackmail them into all sorts of things including threatening to dodge them if they don’t keep spreading the malware essentially turning a young person into a cyber Criminal it’s really hard to believe this is all

Happening over blood game points considering how serious this is sometimes there is no involvement from other people at all a malicious mod can be set up to Simply hijack a victim’s Discord account and mass send them out to other people without the need to really do anything in the hopes at least

One person falls for it these are the ones you see spammed in Discord servers all the time and obviously you should just ignore them and report it and another way these malware programmers spread their dirty work is by releasing really click-baity titles like how to get a hundred million coins an hour with

This flipping mod or how to dupe in style block using this very easy method and of course in the description there’s a link to download the malware which they tell you is essential in order for the dupe or coin strategy to work and there’s thousands of these videos there

Are even videos of people advertising a free account hacking mod that when and downloaded and used is itself an account hacking mod that has the downloader’s accounts hacked at least it’s not false advertising I guess this community also doesn’t call these fake mods malware or viruses they call them rats short for

Remote access Trojan as they can sometimes give a hacker full control over a victim’s computer but mostly because it’s a shorter term to use an interesting thing to note about the people doing all of this especially the ones at the very top is how things usually don’t start as serious as

Described earlier it’s common to see people who started as low level stammers meet other stammers and eventually get the worst into doing bitter and better things to stem more and more coins and eventually real life money there is almost a sense of entitlement with these people as if they deserve to keep

Earning more because they are somehow better than everyone else in one twisted paragraph that’s both ancient fashion and a weird Flex an individual in the hacking Community wrote that readers should quote keep in mind I’m an international business student IRL in a highly prestigious school so I know how to impress and that

At one point my ignore list was 700 people I stamped over 600 pieces of Superior and went ahead to explain his boring empty life story filled with how he was able to socially engineer people and get them stamped and hacked as if that is a good thing to be flexing about

And that studying business isn’t the most generic thing possible so as you can tell most of these people aren’t the greatest kind of human beings and most are just narcissists who trade power or easy money and their ability to convince children to commit actual crimes and betray their friends just so they can

Profit is one of the darkest things I’ve seen on the internet and I’ve seen many bad things okay but all of this we just talked about is happening on hypixel’s dialogue so what is Hypixel going to do about it well we went ahead and got in contact

With a couple of admins for their thoughts on it and they were very well aware of the situation and told us that they are planning on combating it which I suppose we could see them slowly doing by hiring more game Masters and by adding the new security sloth NPC to the

Hub that links you to an article by Hypixel that tells you how to stay secure although the information there is a bit vague in general and doesn’t exactly tell you what you need to know to be able to keep using mods and stay insecure and it feels like they aren’t

Doing stuff fast enough maybe at least adding ATF agent help a little bit so what can you do about it to keep yourself safe and others safe well the easy answer is don’t install any mods but you can of course still install mods whilst being a hundred percent safe you

Just need to only install mods from trusted sources such as the official distort servers for places or Stateline or other official websites always check if the place is official before downloading a mod never download mods someone sends you on Discord in the MS even if it was your best friend just

Tell them it’s nothing personal if something sounds too good to be true it is don’t attempt to download macros or cheats since those are usually filled with viruses you will end up getting banned or hacked no in between so it’s not worth it any.exe file or a jar file

Can get you hacked so be cautious around them if you are suspicious about something like a mod ask about it in public channels or ask the moderators of a Stabler Community the more you ask different people the better just make sure you don’t send the mod there that

Would get you terminated the best way to combat all of this is to spread awareness so feel free to share this video with all of your friends that also play Skyblock or Minecraft or send them this video with this timestamp if they don’t want to watch the whole thing as a

Bit of awareness should save someone’s account and even their entire life savings in some extreme cases but for a Twitter update on our friend’s case after contacting the coinbase employees with the help of his parents and a lawyer for two weeks he was able to get

His money refunded to him which was 7 ethereum or 22 000 back then so I suppose his story didn’t end very terribly but his tablet items and all his personal information are now forever in the hands of people who can maliciously use them in any way they

Want and that is something very dark to think of and this is the darkest side of Minecraft’s multiplayer see ya and have a nice day commit your crimes