My littlebrother clicked on a malicious link and lost his inventory. Does the hacker have my familie - General

First of all I'm sorry if this is posted in the wrong section. I'm freaking out here. I tried deleting the Keylogger as much as I could, but I have never dealt with something like this before. I'm not even sure if it's a Keylogger. I just know that the hacker got into his account, took his Csgo inventory and sent a sketchy link out to everyone on his friendslist I don't know how long this "Keylogger" has been on his computer. But yesterday my littlebrother used my mom and dad's card to buy 10 dollars to his steam wallet Is my families bank account compromised? Does he know where I live? And where do I go from now? I'm not even sure if I got rid of the whole virus. All I know is that I'm freaking out.

[QUOTE=DanielSA10;48255726]First of all I'm sorry if this is posted in the wrong section. I'm freaking out here. I tried deleting the Keylogger as much as I could, but I have never dealt with something like this before. I'm not even sure if it's a Keylogger. I just know that the hacker got into his account, took his Csgo inventory and sent a sketchy link out to everyone on his friendslist I don't know how long this "Keylogger" has been on his computer. But yesterday my littlebrother used my mom and dad's card to buy 10 dollars to his steam wallet Is my families bank account compromised? Does he know where I live? And where do I go from now? I'm not even sure if I got rid of the whole virus. All I know is that I'm freaking out.[/QUOTE] Ban him from using computers ever. His steam account gets compromised, so he puts another wad of cash in it as if 1: it's not going to get stolen too and 2: there's no chance of the credit card being compromised too? Tell your parents, contact steam support, change steam password from another machine, download av software

Some things to consider 1. You need to run an anti-virus, deleting the keylogger may not have totally cleaned up the problem. 2. It probably doesn't matter that one stranger on the internet knows where you live, and there's not much you can do about anyways. 3. The perpetrator could have card numbers, and they may be used elsewhere. The important thing is that the cardholders (your parents) know about this, because they might want to report them lost/stolen and get new cards to be safe. This doesn't mean anyone's bank account is compromised unless you logged into a banking website on that computer. You should change all the passwords you've used on that computer when you can (after running a virus scan). Morbo has a point too, your brother shouldn't be using Steam if he can't handle being safe and secure online. This isn't about being an idiot on the internet, this is about costing your parents money now.

[QUOTE=DanielSA10;48255726]Is my families bank account compromised? Does he know where I live? And where do I go from now? I'm not even sure if I got rid of the whole virus.[/QUOTE] No. If you really think there's a keylogger on his computer (there are other ways to steal accounts) tell your parents, they'll call the credit card company to see if any weird purchases from another location have been made, if there are they'll cancel the card and that's that.

Thank you for all the suggestions, I'm gonna tell my parents about this and hope it all turns out alright. And we will also have a long talk with my littlebrother.

Let your municipal and county police know about this too. They take keyloggers very seriously, and will get all their available detectives onto the case immediately.

there's really two possibilities, 1. your little brother tossed his steam account information to some source over the internet when he believed he could get skins for free(hence, not so much keylogged but more of phished) 2. your brother downloaded a keylogger when he was looking through shadier stuff and whoever the perp is now has your little brother's steam info AND your parents card info. i suggest leering on the safer side and getting a new card from the parent whose card was used, changing the steam password remotely, and banning your little brother for the computer for a while.

I'll beat up your brother for you, just gimme a call.

Once again thank you for all the suggestions. We ditched our old credit cards and ordered new ones, luckily nothing was taken which is great. Now we just need to have a long talk with that little shit

[QUOTE=DanielSA10;48259684]Once again thank you for all the suggestions. We ditched our old credit cards and ordered new ones, luckily nothing was taken which is great. Now we just need to have a long talk with that little shit[/QUOTE] Send any skins he has left to me, i need to fuel my gambling addiction

[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;48259787]Send any skins he has left to me, i need to fuel my gambling addiction[/QUOTE] I would love to do that, but he only have shit tier skins left :v:

[QUOTE=DanielSA10;48259807]I would love to do that, but he only have shit tier skins left :v:[/QUOTE] start small and become big that's csgo gambling for you

[QUOTE=DanielSA10;48259807]I would love to do that, but he only have shit tier skins left :v:[/QUOTE] give

[url]https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2014/09/steam-threats-what-they-are-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-your-account/[/url] Check this, most likely related to the virus. The gist of it: it's a trojan and it is usually delivered as a screensaver file format (which could act as an executable) linked by the scammer as an "image" for a trade offer. I'm not sure what the exact payload entails but sending links to everyone in your steam list is a known behavior. People get fooled all the time because they are not aware .scr files are potentially dangerous and the links come from their trusted friends' compromised accounts. The problem have existed for months.

[QUOTE=Mastermind of42;48261915][url]https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2014/09/steam-threats-what-they-are-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-your-account/[/url] Check this, most likely related to the virus. The gist of it: it's a trojan and it is usually delivered as a screensaver file format (which could act as an executable) linked by the scammer as an "image" for a trade offer. I'm not sure what the exact payload entails but sending links to everyone in your steam list is a known behavior. People get fooled all the time because they are not aware .scr files are potentially dangerous and the links come from their trusted friends' compromised accounts. The problem have existed for months.[/QUOTE] The general payload is compromising a Steam account's inventory and that's it. Generally they don't leave anything else behind and remove themselves on reboot but not always.

[QUOTE=aznz888;48256019]there's really two possibilities, 1. your little brother tossed his steam account information to some source over the internet when he believed he could get skins for free(hence, not so much keylogged but more of phished) 2. your brother downloaded a keylogger when he was looking through shadier stuff and whoever the perp is now has your little brother's steam info AND your parents card info. i suggest leering on the safer side and getting a new card from the parent whose card was used, changing the steam password remotely, and banning your little brother for the computer for a while.[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. At least some months ago scripts could be hidden within image files, that would make your steam send all your items to a specific inventory, and also send that link to everyone on friends list, which is how it spread. I can't find the thread there was on this, sadly.

[QUOTE=Mastermind of42;48261915][url]https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2014/09/steam-threats-what-they-are-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-your-account/[/url] Check this, most likely related to the virus. The gist of it: it's a trojan and it is usually delivered as a screensaver file format (which could act as an executable) linked by the scammer as an "image" for a trade offer. I'm not sure what the exact payload entails but sending links to everyone in your steam list is a known behavior. People get fooled all the time because they are not aware .scr files are potentially dangerous and the links come from their trusted friends' compromised accounts. The problem have existed for months.[/QUOTE] i remember getting hit by a very early version of this in 2013. this guy and i were working on something and he decided to send me it nothing happened for 1 or 2 hours until i was instantly booted off steam and my password was changed. unlucky for the little shit i quickly changed my password on my steamacc and email and booted him off it. i am also pretty sure he is the creator of the inventory stealer.

[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;48261352]give[/QUOTE] what he said Facepunch requires goods for assisting you in your service. give (to him)

play this for your brother [video=youtube;bsOwFWXtr7w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOwFWXtr7w[/video]