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2011/Feb/02 - PowerBot Gets Hacked By Bot Providers
Topic Started: Feb 5 2011, 10:16 AM (1,688 Views)
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The following was posted by PowerBot administrator Paris.

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The Free Trade Hacking Massacre

In late December 2010 Jacmob and Arbiter decided to acquire powerbot.org by force. Not content with the modest profits from selling scripts, their intention was to close the RSBot source code and make it pay-only with prohibitively expensive prices similar to the Nexus business model. I disagreed with their plans and shortly afterwards they left.

Before leaving, Jacmob deviously switched the download link on the site to a version of RSBot that was infected with a password stealer. Having conspired with Arbiter to ruin the reputation of the site they intended to mass-hack accounts when RuneScape reintroduced free-trade.

Since many of our users still compile their own RSBot with SVN, Arbiter infected all his paid scripts with the same password stealer effectively conning his own customers. Arbiter has been using the aliases Gh0$t, NoEffex, Blackbone and others with a group of friends to coordinate this criminal operation.

To make matters worse, Arbiter created a closed-source fork of RSBot which was infected with a botnet. Anyone who innocently ran his bot would have been part of a large network of compromised computers which he used to launch a DDoS attack on powerbot.org.

We deeply regret not being able to detect the breach of our systems sooner. We will make every endeavour to tighten our security to prevent similar incidents. We have also upgraded our infrastructure with state of the art equipment and hardware firewalls to prevent DDoS attacks from causing too much downtime.

Arbiter has vowed to hack us again and will make every attempt to do so. Please be weary of his lies and threats. To date he has made thousands of dollars from his hacking activity.

Please make sure you continue to dispute all payments ever made to Arbiter or ArbiBots on PayPal.

Arbiters personal details have been obtained and are being passed onto lawyers representing Jagex. When they have confirmed to us that they have begun their legal proceedings, we will make a full disclosure on this information which includes tax registration documents, home address, telephone number, IP addresses, screenshots, pictures and more.

We thank you for staying with the largest RuneScape cheating community in existence and helping us to achieve unprecedented growth every month.

Update: independent report -

War of the Botters. Powerbot Vs Rs buddy The explanation.

Currently in the runescape botting world there is a crisis. Accounts are being hacked, valuables are being lost.
Many people are wondering WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED? WHY DID THIS GO TO **** SO QUICKLY? and i have answers.
I have been taking part in this project over the last few months, i have now looked at the consequences of what i have done and have
realised that its not worth it anymore.

Heres how it started

This has been planed out months ago, we started to talk about it in may 2010 but only started working on it in July.
The two main Developers of the project were fed up with the powerbot community, Jacmob was having arguments with Paris about how the
site was going downhill, there was too many botters and not enough contributers. Jacmob was fed up with this and decided to try and
buy out powerbot. The amount that jacmob offered was high but paris would just not take it, this led to arguments within the staff
and the replacement of many staff members. Jacmob decided to stay on as the developer, but always intended to resign sometime
within the next 6 months. Soon after this, the old RSBot.org domain was bought out by jagex which led to more arguments within the
staff. During this time Rsbot2 was being developed. Many of the staff took 2 sides, Most with Paris and the others with Jacmob (Arbiter & Toshi). The Project was started soon after this, originally it was started only to piss of Paris and show that the website would be nothing without them, however soon after this other factors came into play, such as member numbers, Monopoly of the botting industry & soon after that money. The project was originally very small with only about 15 people who knew what was going on, throughout this time they just did what they normally did on Powerbot, but other times they were creating a website & another Botting client. We launched the website on a private domain and soon after that we started to test the new client everything was working and was great, but soon after this we ran into a large problem, because our client is not open sourced to form some sort of protection for the client (From the jagex lawyers) & to make sure no one could edit our client (Sabotage) we had to create a Company (Company's have legal rights and immunities against certain laws), thus Automaton Software Ltd was born, the only problem we had now was the actual cost of registering the company. The company is registered in Germany for many reasons, the main one is that we would have certain immunity to many laws mainly because we could licence our software as freedom of speech. The costs of hosting the domain & licencing the company was going to cost thousands of Euro's to set up, we had already gone past our original budget and were using our own money to fund the project. We now had to think outside the box to come up with funding solutions, arbiters scripts were making money, but not nearly enough to fund the whole project, soon after this we came up with an idea which would tear the botting community appart. Arbiter is well known for his scripts, the best thing was that people couldn't see the source code of the scripts, so we could put anything we wanted into them and no one would ever know. we started to code a key logger which would take the Rsbots account data, decode it & send it to us via email's. This was reletivly easy because jacmob (Being the coder) knew how to decode the files, we planed on hacking everyones account and collecting all the gold & items and selling the accounts to gold selling websites (As this was before the announcement of free trade came). We actually started taking passwords in early December but due to a number
of issues (With the licencing & the company) we were forced to wait till early January to start our operation, which worked out perfectly for us. On December 24th the announcement on free trade came, we knew this would work to our advantage so we decided to wait till free trade came back. Our estimates were that we could collect about 40 Billion GP which sold for 50c (Usd) a mil we could
get about $20,000 American dollars, which would fund our site for the next few years. In doing this we also decided that it was far
too risky to do the collection of GP ourself's, Paris was an old hacker who knew how to backtrack ip's and could easily screw us all
over, we also didn't want our ip's to be traced by the government or by jagex (Both would end in a lawsuit against us) so we decided
to hire some kids who would do the work for us, in return we would give them cash + all the GP they wanted this is how gh0st got
involved. Gh0st was not a hacker, he was a leecher who was trying to learn how to hack, the perfect disguise... We literally got gh0st (Some 14 year old kid) to do all the transferring for us (We also hired some others but gh0st was the main one) all he did was create accounts and transfer the GP onto them. The other part of the deal we had with him was to say that he had done all the hacking and to take all the credit, Luckily he was quite good with photoshop and created some pretty good pictures of the account lists.
We gave him all the logs of passwords on the day before free trade and let him get to work. The next thing that came was the
advertising of our own site and trying to take there members, we made many ad's on the powerbot site to come to our new better client
and on the Rsbot Twitter. Eventualy we were Ip banned of Powerbot and couldnt access the Twitter, this was when we started DDosing
Thier site. We all used Rdos to ping there site till there was nothing left, what we didnt expect was them DDosing us back. This lead
to the dossing war which is continuing right now. we have taken down their site, Ours is still up but is very slow to load. This
is where the story ends... For now

You might think this is bull****, think what you want, i have given an explanation to the current events to the best of my knowledge.

******* client is a real client and dose not steal your password, we are thinking of turning it into somthing simmilar to RSbots.net.
ArbiBots scripts were the ones that stole your passwords. ******* dosent steal your password, i think.
We have currently collected 19 Billion Gp and we have gone through 3500/14000 accounts. This is the new age of botting.



Before official news surfaced:

We thought we rid of these guys when Jagex gave RSBot a fine for infringing on their coded property of items and a direct violation of their Terms of Service agreement NOT to abuse the nature coding order of the gameplay.

Jagex took control of the RSBot website. They moved over to PowerBot and picked upright where they left off.

I'm not sure why Jagex can't sue them again for doing the same thing they were told not to. Is there some weird double jeopardy law that doesn't permit the same offense to get punished more than once?

At any rate the same day this new "Ban Appeal Reformation" became widely known is around the time PowerBot went offline for several days (happened also in 2010 if anyone recalls that news article).

After several days in the unknowing and wondering if they were gone for good.. a few members have surfaced to post news of their return from the darkness.

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500 - Internal Server Error
The forums are currently unavailable due to a technical fault. We are aware of the issue and hope to be back shortly.

@Madmatt9797 Because you either don't have JRE or you are opening with the wrong program. 21 seconds ago
@Sjikedorte We are upgrading our connection speed to facilitate all of you. 4 minutes ago
@matthiastjong Please wait patiently for an ETA 4 minutes ago
@brap4346 Forums will be back once we have done the connection speed upgrade 12 minutes ago
@Hommiedog8 That will be fixed once our connection upgrade is done. 14 minutes ago


They're back!
Edited by Kire667, Feb 6 2011, 05:23 AM.
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I know it isn't fair.

Here I thought Jagex shut their asses down after this being the return after they had a massive fine on the last website "RSBot". Not only did it use the name and logo of RuneScape with bad intentions and promoted cheating.. they were also abusing the coding of RuneScape to their advantage through programs that manipulated it so they would NEVER auto log out.

Quite funny. I was on their IRC chat/site last night. Nobody there even heard of the Ban Appeal Reinstatement.. and the entire update is centered MAINLY about giving botters a second chance with buying back accounts after banned in 2011.

I had to post a link directly to the page on RuneScape.com for them to believe it. But yeah.. I bet now once their forum is back up that will be the 3rd website I was 2nd to post about it. The only other places somebody else beat me to the discussion was Rune Headquarters and official RuneScape Forums. :P Grrr.


They're back. Let's see if anyone yet posted what I informed IRC about.

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