PSA: Brickers Abound

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Just a short Public Service Announcement for our users, particularly the ones who like their Homebrew on Nintendo platforms. The Homebrew community tends to be positive and participating in it is a recipe for a good time, but no group of people is free of bad actors with too much time on their hands. We have reason to believe that in the near future we'll see a lot of suspicious uploads of innocent-looking applications that are actually concealed console brickers and viruses. We came across a disconcerting threat against our site, among others, made by a Wii malware creator.

The safety of our users is our number one priority, so we strongly urge forum-goers to be weary of applications uploaded to the site recently, particularly if they come from relatively new accounts. We apologise for this inconvenience, but sadly there is little we can do besides staying vigilant and dealing swiftly with any and all suspicious content.

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well let's be fair, it's too late to do anything now, and we should just make sure mods don't do anything like this in the future. I do agree though.
I don't understand your mindset at all - he's released malicious software before and he's threatening to release more of it, on a larger scale - people should know. Encourage him? To do what? He's going to do whatever he wants to do either way, and we're going to have a good belly laugh out of it since it will fail miserably. If he wants to be famous for being an idiot, that's fine. It's your protestations that I find odd - no harm can come from being more careful about what you install on your system. This will all blow over in due time and the post will be unpinned - this isn't the first time the community has dealt with brickers and it isn't the last. We've been through this on the DS, 3DS and the Wii before, it's an old and tired spiel.
 

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My deal is protecting users of this site from potentially malicious software that he threatened to upload here... ...there's nothing wrong with that.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that, I agree. But like I said, could've you at least posted this PSA when an actual bricker attack was going down? Just a thread with some countdown means nothing. If this guy posted these brickers a day beforehand, this post wouldn't even have existed.

Anyway, fuck this shit, this script-kiddie is now the internet's damn buisness. I'm already fucking triggerd over this guy, I shouldn't have made that fucking CrashMe article in the first fucking place.

Fuck this post and fuck this literal circus.
 

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Absolutely nothing wrong with that, I agree. But like I said, could've you at least posted this PSA when an actual bricker attack was going down? Just a thread with some countdown means nothing. If this guy posted these brickers a day beforehand, this post wouldn't even have existed.

Anyway, fuck this shit, this script-kiddie is now the internet's damn buisness. I'm already fucking triggerd over this guy, I shouldn't have made that fucking CrashMe article in the first fucking place.

Fuck this post and fuck this literal circus.
You'd rather if users were warned *after* the first bricks start popping up as opposed to before? No offense, but that makes no sense to me. If this was a random guy who has never released malware before, we would've summarily ignored it, as we often do with non-credible threats. This is not the case - he has a history of posting malware, so we're just warning users about him.
 

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You'd rather if users were warned *after* the first bricks start popping up as opposed to before? No offense, but that makes no sense to me. If this was a random guy who has never released malware before, we would've summarily ignored it, as we often do with non-credible threats. This is not the case - he has a history of posting malware, so we're just warning users about him.
Like I said, this script kiddie is now your buisness. I give up. Cya later, fuckin' GBAtemp.
 

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Absolutely nothing wrong with that, I agree. But like I said, could've you at least posted this PSA when an actual bricker attack was going down? Just a thread with some countdown means nothing. If this guy posted these brickers a day beforehand, this post wouldn't even have existed.

Anyway, fuck this shit, this script-kiddie is now the internet's damn buisness. I'm already fucking triggerd over this guy, I shouldn't have made that fucking CrashMe article in the first fucking place.

Fuck this post and fuck this literal circus.
Foxi4 is correct at this point though, the post no longer directly mentions the specified malware and the script kiddie.
This post can now be taken as a general warning, and awareness of the existence of such malware for the Nintendo Wii should be spread around.
 
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Foxi4 is correct at this point though, the post no longer directly mentions the specified malware and the script kiddie.
This is can now be taken as a general warning and that's definitely something that should be spread around for awareness of the existence of such malware for the Nintendo Wii.
I don't understand why we're supposed to walk around on egg shells lest we provoke some no-name copy paste idiot. I'm not going to change my decisions based on what a less-than-clever manchild thinks or does. The entire purpose of the post is to raise awareness, it's not "starting a panic". What *is* causing people to panic is users freaking out that "getting mentioned" will "encourage" someone to do more harm when they're already intending to do harm. There's no reason to freak out, nothing's happened yet, and nothing will if we're careful and diligent when installing software, which we should be anyway, regardless of the circumstances. I'm not going to argue about this any further, it is what it is.
 

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I don't understand why we're supposed to walk around on egg shells lest we provoke some no-name copy paste idiot. I'm not going to change my decisions based on what a less-than-clever manchild thinks or does. The entire purpose of the post is to raise awareness, it's not "starting a panic". What *is* causing people to panic is users freaking out that "getting mentioned" will "encourage" someone to do more harm when they're already intending to do harm. There's no reason to freak out, nothing's happened yet, and nothing will if we're careful and diligent when installing software, which we should be anyway, regardless of the circumstances. I'm not going to argue about this any further, it is what it is.


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Priiloader and you're good to go (in case of Wii).
Plus most of these brickers are written by novices, like Wii Pong which can literally be made in 2 lines of code: printf and NAND write.
 

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Priiloader and you're good to go (in case of Wii).
It does not protect against targeted attacks as it modifies the System Menu IOS, a malicious program could easily overwrite that, just as easily as the Priiloader installer does so when you install Priiloader.
 

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It does not protect against targeted attacks as it modifies the System Menu IOS, a malicious program could easily overwrite that, just as easily as the Priiloader installer does so when you install Priiloader.

Yep it's true that Priiloader can be made unoperable on purpose, but as far as I know it's not the case for the Wii brickers so far found.
 

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Yep it's true that Priiloader can be made unoperable on purpose, but as far as I know it's not the case for the Wii brickers so far found.
So far yeah, but the guy who was the reason why the mods wrote this warning post mentioned making a targeted Priiloader attack.
Note: I only assume you haven't seen the original post before his message got removed as this was your first post in this thread.
 
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Yep it's true that Priiloader can be made unoperable on purpose, but as far as I know it's not the case for the Wii brickers so far found.
Wrong. Check [DATA EXPUNGED]'s website again. There's supposedly one in the works that kills Priiloader.
 

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Those are really dumb tho
That's a no skill attack, a 12yo could do that
nonetheless it is still annoying but i just don't get why you would do that, it is pointless, put you at risk (legaly), you get no reconaissance or reputation as no skill are required to do that, really skiddy level.
and you might piss off some people but really it isn't even fun, there are much more rewarding trolls to do.
 

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Are these people really so fucking pathetic and egotistic that they feel the urge to brick other people's consoles?
They just want to be remembered for something, even if that something is turbo stupid. I'd rather make our forum members aware of any shenanigans so that the author of the malware doesn't get the satisfaction of doing any damage. Naturally he might not even post anything here, which means I'll end up with egg on my face, but I'd rather have that then to see you guys get hit - that's our job here.
 

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