Dear community,

 

Over the past month we have seen a reign of cyber crime across the Runescape botting scene. vInsert was the victim of several Runescape account hacking disputes before its database got compromised in the merger with Aurora. Now Advertising other bots isn't allowed. was defaced as well and its database was compromised as well.

 

This thread is to shed some light on our perspective towards those recent happenings. We have always tried to be in time with warnings to protect you as people, Runescape players and us as a community and succeeded in doing this. But as this wave is continuing we have to give it more attention. In general everything we do is with security in mind, that means our security (both personal and OSBot's) and your security. With the recent happenings we have decided that we will take an entire day to go through each and every security measurement we have and see if there is anything that can be improved without harming any user experience.

 

We feel sad for the victims of those attacks even though they might be competitors in some sort of way, we do not and will never condone DDoS'ing, hacking and any other sort of black hat activity.

 

OSBot itself also has been victim of attacks, may it only be DDoS attacks though. We are increasing measurements taken to automatically mitigate such attacks. If such attacks will continue we will alarm authorities and file a report. We will be collecting network connection logs in case. I'm repeating myself, but we will never condone any cyber crime and black hat activity by ourselves, our community members and others.

 

OSBot is a place where people should feel safe and comfortable.

 

Sincerely,

 

OSBot.org

Glad to hear that!

Thanks for the announcement.

Good shit homie.

Does this mean that the bot will be down for the next 24 hours?

Thank god I made the switch.

 

 

#vino

This was some good assurance for me and the community knowing that everyone is safe where we are.

How can you improve the security of osbot to prevent this kind of stuff?

Privacy is a big part of security

Thanks for informing us.

That's great to hear

Does this mean that the bot will be down for the next 24 hours?

No the bot will be online.

Good work.

Well said, keep up the good work!

ah glad  to hear

 

Good to see that you addressed the issue.