Bitcointalk forums hacked, Bill Cosby pimping new CosbyCoins to all the members. (Forums DOWN)
This is by far the mosthilariousthing to happen in the official BitcoinTalk forums, ever.
Someone hacked the forums and injected some code that, among other things, causes a bunch of Bill Cosby popups, simulates uploading of a wallet.dat file, changes all avatars to images of Bill Cosby, and even changes the word Buttcoin to Cosbycoin.
You can see the hilarity yourself by going to the forums and waiting about 5 seconds for the comedy gold to flow.
Here’s a sample of what’s going on.
Better fix this right away!
Forums have been shut down for several hours now.
EDIT: I just got an email from one of the admins “Sirius” that this was mostly likely another Adobe Flash exploit.
We’re looking to the incident right now. We had to take the site offline to protect any further malicious activity.Luckilyit seems like a simple Adobe Flash exploit, and we’ve cleaned up most of the offending code and .swf files.
The exploit he was referring to had this information from Adobe’s site.
This vulnerability (CVE-2018-COZPOP) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected server. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in certain website forum software, delivered as an emoticon or “smilie” in the forum software. At this time, Adobe is not aware of attacks targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.
Make sure to browse safely guys.
September 9, 2011 @ 2:12 pm
RETURN MY WALLET.DAT NOW OR PREPARE TO BE CONTACTED BY THE AUTHORITIES
Bitcointalk forums hacked, Bill Cosby pimping new CosbyCoins
September 9, 2011 @ 2:14 pm
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September 9, 2011 @ 3:08 pm
you took my .dat file police report has been filed for this website!
September 9, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
You guys didn’t get your wallet taken…
September 9, 2011 @ 4:11 pm
Jello Pudding, you can’t be a kid without it!
September 9, 2011 @ 5:02 pm
>You guys didn
September 9, 2011 @ 6:44 pm
I’m an ANARCHIST and I’m calling the AUTHORITIES!
Hello God?
God, sum goonz stole me bitcoins! Smote them!
Huh? I’m athiest anarchist?
DAMN U GOONZ! U stole me AUTHORITIES!
September 9, 2011 @ 7:55 pm
You stole my wallet.dat that had 82 million bitcoins in it. I want it back or I’m gonna call the police and tell them that you stole the GDP of a 3rd world country from my hard drive!
September 9, 2011 @ 7:57 pm
I think the hack stabilized the freefall BTC was in lol
September 9, 2011 @ 8:19 pm
I recently lost all my money in my bitcoin wallet after this trojan. I lost 4091 bitcoins. I’d appreciate some charity. 14U1AwbzXZPaRUvLijJzCmRUphF4bHWetd
September 9, 2011 @ 9:25 pm
You know if you lost your wallet.dat what you need to do NOW is get a new wallet and move all your funds to that new wallet right away before they do. I recomend bitcoin debit after you have done that so you don’t have to keep your own coins.
https://bitcoindebit.net
September 9, 2011 @ 11:26 pm
ANARCHISTS prefer to have some authority figure hold their muneez for them. It makes them feel a safe to know that their NANNY is telling them what to do.
Nobody tells ANARCHISTS what to do! Right Mummy?
September 10, 2011 @ 3:50 am
When forum admins allow emo signatures, they deserve this to happen, really.
September 10, 2011 @ 8:06 am
more comedy gold here;
https://www.nanaimogold.com/cosbycoinhack.php
September 10, 2011 @ 8:31 am
bitcoin talk still down
new independent discussion forum here;
http://talkbtc.com/forum.php
Why no folder for Cosbycoins?
It’s the next new big thing to excite akward anarchist boys in mummie’s basement!
Furries and Emos and Gheymers and Cosbycoin!
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September 10, 2011 @ 2:21 pm
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September 11, 2011 @ 5:20 am
The best part is how confused that mail from “Sirius” is. He doesn’t even seem to understand the difference between a client vulnerability and a server vulnerability.
(It was actually a good old SQL injection in the shitty SMF script that was used.)
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September 11, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
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September 13, 2011 @ 4:24 am
That Sirius quote is fake btw, see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42572.msg518291#msg518291
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December 19, 2012 @ 7:30 am
CVE-2018-COZPOP doesn’t exists.
gitcointalk.org?
May 9, 2013 @ 4:19 am
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