League of Legends Philippines says no personal information has been accessed in crypto-extraction client hijacking

A day after the players discovered that the Philippine client League of Legends had been hacked by a cryptocurrency program, Garena replied to confirm that the program "no authorized "had been deleted

" There was an unauthorized modification to the PH League of Legends client lobby where some Javascript code was inserted, "Garena said in the Facebook post. "This code performs a blockchain extraction on the affected computers, which consumes CPU resources from these computers. Apart from the increased CPU usage, a thorough analysis of our security engineers has determined that there is no need for the CPU. there is no other impact on the affected computers in the comments, even though the program basically used the player's processor to exploit Monero, a form of cryptocurrency, it did not access any information personal located anywhere on the player's computer.

The security team finally withdrew the client threat at 3:30 pm CT on July 10. The program lived on the client for about 38 hours, according to his analysis, starting at 01:16 CT on July 8. Players can consider themselves lucky that the program does not have access to any of their personal information, because if that was the purpose, he would have had a lot of Time to do it.

Players have complained in the comments on the Facebook page that this question has been around "for months," but this thread of Reddit from yesterday has finally caught the eye. Garena responded by saying that this threat had definitely started days ago, rather than months ago, but did not comment on whether there had been any other such threats in the past.

If you play in the Philippines, or If you plan to play it, the client League should be able to use it again. If you find a strange or malicious activity at the customer, be sure to send an email to Garena directly to the address indicated in the Facebook update. Doing a Reddit post has never hurt anyone either.