Dear Crypto Community
Recently there have been alot of newbie accounts that have been quoting a coin developers posts or original posts with download links and changing them to ones that contain keyloggers/remote admin/botnets etc.
This is affecting a lot of people and a lot of people are losing money/personal info/passwords/interest in coins (as they have been robbed and don't want to start again) etc
To help combat these willy heads I suggest all devs remove/ban all download links for wallets in OP's etc and have only a link pointing to there website that will contain all needed clean downloads.
Or self moderated threads use this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=850210.0Edit File deletebot.yml to your thread details and set Minimum Activity to the number you desire. This will allow the attacker to post but within 60 seconds or whatever you set sleep to the post will be deleted by the bot if... The users username is in the file "lusers.txt".... or the user has lower activity than what you set under "minimum activity" resulting in a nice clean friendly thread free from trolls/malicious links/FUD etc
# username at BCT
user : Your BCT UserName
# remove or make null for getpass; put in a password for auto
password : Your BCT Password
# BCT topic number eg.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=243911 <=== Just this number
topic : 243911
# file with username blacklist, one per line
lusers : lusers.txt
# minimum activity a user needs to post
# can be modified while bot is live (you can delete this part if you don't want to use this feature)
activity : 10
# sleep this many seconds before reloading new messages
# can be modified while bot is live
sleep : 60
# name of the file where cookies are stored
cookiefile : cookies.lwp
# for development, this can be ommitted or set to false
debug : true
Another thing we can do is keep an eye out for quoted posts containing said download links by hovering over each link and checking in the bottom left of your browser that they correspond, If they don't REPORT!
I have been requoting these attackers with warning messages but removing the link to reduce the spread until the mods delete the post like this :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=979296.msg10846708#msg10846708So far it has affected these communities that I'm aware of but there are probably many, many more:
FonzieCoin
10K Coin
TwisterCoin
GlobalCoin
PayCon
Tecoin
I know there is an element of "serves you right", but there are new members joining the crypto community every day. Some, pretty clued up. Some, not so much. But i hope we can pull together as a community and stop this BS getting out of control and before they form the biggest botnet the world has ever seen!
This is the latest account I have found to be posting these attacks. Check post history the only links he/she changes are the windows qt's that I can see:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=486350Please play safe and if you have any other idea's please post them below, spread the word. Awareness is everything!
Love you all
Mr Fista
Update:
Safer download distribution:
-FonzieCoin
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=979296.0)
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If you would like your coin to be added to the SDD list, please remove all download links from your thread and only host them on your official website and have a link in your OP to the official site. I will get a logo made you can add to your announcements to show people how much you care about your community.
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