The War On T1 

Though on hindsight, I would say Riot probably are working on it undercover and don't want to publicly announce it in the fear that the DDOSERs are going to go into hiding. We'll just have to see, though I wish they weren't doing radio silence as it can look off-putting.

Are we really surprised they're not paying attention to this? I'm always confused at these comments when riot has showed for years they don't give a fuck about there game as long as money is still coming in.

But thats the thing it will affect money flow. Like it or not the lck is a huge part of lwagues income. So I agree with bb they probably are keeping hush to avoid being found out. Even if it does make them look bad visually.

@@coldsun29 Kekw, sure they don't care lmao Really those kind of comments are always so ridiculous

The fact that you think that Riot isn't taking this seriously is the truly crazy thing, lol. How inane.

Agreed. The editing, music, and graphics are top notch. An actual professional production here, great job Ryscu and editor(s)!

Ryscu is the GOAT

Its not just the production value he also seems to know about what hes talking about which is actually quite refreshing to see tbh, its not really required as long as the info provided is accurate to the research done, but it sure is a nice bonus 👍 (im talking about how he seems to know about computer science, and such).

It's 2024. You can lose the mask now

I could not agree more! I was about to write the same exact comment beside I joined this community 2023! I appreciate the work putted in for such a great and very informative video!

To add on, DOS is denial of service, whereas DDOS is distributed denial of service

😅this is actually a good thing , you have to care to fix something , Riot wiil have to care 😮 oh no riotards what you gonna do now?

@@leagueofrebellio1224 what is bro yapping about

@@leagueofrebellio1224?

DOS hasn't been used for a long time as your modem itself can block incoming useless empty packets from a single ip. Even now DDOS with only 10-20 computers most likely won't work.

I guess, he's contract jailed. But that would be a true GOAT move.

t1 are the most screwed by the ddos out of every pro, i wish they did that.

​@@ImaskarDononope.he simply can't join another team until 2025,but the contract can't force him to play.he can choose whether he wants to attend or not

@@aaabbb-zc7sx contracts with sponsors can force a lot of things. "To force" is relative, of course.

@@ImaskarDono True, T1 and Faker specially has a lot of sponsors. T1 itself would encourage or in worse case, force Faker to play due to pressure from those sponsors. Unless those sponsors and T1 itself are in line of Faker's actions, he just can't do that because every one will suffer (financially).

The problem isnt the beaurocracies being involved. They choose to have poor communication.

​​@@iceicejay9569 No, it is hard to communicate in big meetings. Even meetings with as few as 6 or 7 other people are hell. Companies are harder to run than it seems, especially with dire circumstances.

@@HappyGick again false. Companies choose ti have issues because a dozen people believe they are important enough to be involved instead of using deligate and do

​@iceicejay9569 while my statement might be wrong, it's also wrong to say their assessment on the plausible cause is incorrect as we aren't the ones on the ground. While we don't have the exact info, we're mostly assuming the possible causes with the current information that we have as of current

@@iceicejay9569 ...Isn't that just saying "bureaucracy" in a different way?

So real. This game company is so pathetic and so is this game.

Not to erm actually, but just an FYI, the problem isn't the Kernel-Level Access (every anti-cheat does that), it's the fact Vanguard launches itself in the background every single time your PC launches and stays open even if you don't play a Vanguard-protected game. THAT'S what makes it pseudo spyware. Just reminding you before there's 5 more comments going "uhm did u kno every anticheat is kernl level u stopid"

@@ultimaabyssal2484 Yeah I know lol. I'm a computer engineer. I'm not referring to the Spyware issue, which yes, it IS an issue. But in this case I'm talking about the fact that Riot is using a proprietary cheat engine when company code was leaked and the full extent was never (at least that I know of) disclosed. The leak has caused problems (DDoS on competitions) that Riot hasn't fixed. That makes it installing a proprietary kernel level anti cheat quite a risk. EVEN MORE SO with the whole other issue you mentioned.

What? The entire point of Vanguard is to make sure something like this doesn’t happen. Riot KR is doing nothing right now cos once Vanguard Is enabled they will get rid of their anti cheat

I'm uninstalling

It’s a private company.

different teams. Only few ppl have access to Vanguard, with those being IT-Security experts. Other than the source code of league to which only few users have access to.

Even worse. It was a social engineering attack. Someone acted like they were someone else within Riot to obtain a developer's credentials to do so. Riot clearly doesn't train their employees on cybersecurity or has meaningful controls in place to prevent social engineering attacks like MFA or geofencing. It's one of the reasons why I'm not going to continue playing League once Vanguard comes to live. After the cyberattack, Riot expects me to trust them with 24/7 ring 0 access. Incidentally that is the second. Vanguard is needlessly intrusive. It doesn't need to run at system boot with the highest possible privilege level. That's just asking for a privilege escalation attack to occur. Or something similar that happened to Genshin Impact that also had a 24/7 ring 0 anticheat. I actually wouldn't necessarily mind Vanguard if it didn't require 24/7 access. I understand the need for kernel level anticheat, I heavily disagree with the requirement to run it at system boot.

@@riven4121 It really doesn't matter if it runs at system boot and it also doesn't need to, level 0 is a rootkit afterall. EAC, VAC, Battleye, Ricochet and many more AC that use kernel are just as dangerous and damaging to your PC as Vanguard. Difference is that those AC are in the hands of westerners so unless they sell out to CSTO or China directly (which there is a likelyhood, but it's much smaller than the CCP abusing their power over Tencent) we have much less to worry about those AC. Needless to say if you work at any place, installing any 0 level will get you immediately fired because it already bricked your system and has access to the entire network.They're all equally intrusive and destructive even without being permanently active on your device. Giving any app access to level 0 rings makes your entire network a liability, at any point, even if you uninstall said program.

@@MisterAssasine lol they got the anti-cheat of korea. How long will it take them to get Vanguard eventually?

Sometimes, passwords can be just guessed/iterated. And your email, that one's interesting. Maybe, lol-related websites?

If you used the same password and email on other websites a database with your data could have been sold on the darkweb.

They are using combo sets of mail and passwords to crack accounts you’re using the same mail and password somewhere else

@@spaceshipradio2810 nope

Had the same problem and resolution. What's more, I had my account 2FA'd but they still managed to hack it.

I mean... He has a patreon 😛

Society got u rl bad

I also feel like that when watching Lemino and ColdFusion.

Ewww

i mean, its illegal so it's time to track them down

Doing DDOS attacks is one of the easiest things to do with a computer lmao. Which makes it kinda puzzling to think that they don't have better protections for it in the LCK. Or in league servers in general.

And who are you to get to say people who do "x" should be "y"?

It's a federal offense if they press charges, so they do lose their access to a computer in prison. Most of the time they are just never caught.

@@Nateyoddos from one pc yes. This is the lowest efford of ddos and most Commonly people use botnets of infected clients

I would just play my game in my imagination instead of whining about ddos attacks if I was a pro player

@@Jerome_111 yeah thats the reason you are not a pro player xdd

​@@Jerome_111ikr mental training. Fucking pros making lazy excuses.

@@Jerome_111 average IWtencent and orange dude fan

Hahaah this is funny 🤣

Maybe it will become a future randomware "Pay up or I'll install Vanguard!" Besides League is just a moba, it's not a rare game, there's countless of copies out there! it's not something worth risking.

Both concerns are valid, actually.

Perfect time to quit this shitty game

if that actually happens, vanguard will become Ransomware, For now it's Spyware but if hackers dig a hole on that shitty anti-cheat, it's Joever madafaka.

nah its china

Thats the stupidest shit ive seen all day. The ddos started before lck playoffs. So you saying china dont care about any other lck teams? No Geng Hle just T1. And some people were playing on the China server with no problem

​@@Rosawwwyeah thats what makes it suspicious, Chinese servers not having trouble is just plain sus. The timing of it all is just too convenient to be a coincidence. Im pretty sure riot and LPL has nothing to do with this, its probably some devious chinese party

@@Rosawww I am not saying they did it but China is very well known for using very dirty tactics to get what they want. Be it land or recognition.

Obviously it’s China. Why else would Riot do nothing bout it. Makes no sense. Chinese flipped after the last worlds and they’ve been exploiting and abusing the Korean system too long

If only code was from Riot. Demacia was developed by an actual competent developing studio. If Demacia was developed by Riot I do not believe hackers would be able to decipher the nonsense coding.

💯

They fucked it up 🤣

I highly doubt Riot Korea is intentionally trying to harm their own playerbase by stopping them from playing the game they made. It's without a doubt the dumbest and anti-money strategy to have ever existed

@@oliver1834 thinking only at surface level and not deep enough but its normal for people who don't know how big company works and profit. Then maybe it's not like that but trust me it could be possible and way more than you think.

@@oliver1834 You can find angry employee in every big company (that's why HR is a thing). It's not impossible thought that this might be an insider job that aim for a revenge act or something like that

Wasn't not so long ago a massive layoff?

Behold: Dota 2. Please play Dota 2 instead. Don't have to spend 20 dollars for pretty cosmetics, report system actually works, and balance is cared about instead of whatever the devs use to climb.

@@ultimaabyssal2484 "TIs prizepool is sponsored by YOU guys!" - "sike we take half of it for ouselves, later idiots". Truly not a cashgrab. :^)

I see what you did there 😂

also good video

Likelyhood that if you installed PBE before, you already had Vanguard on your PC. There is also a chance that Riot has implemented such a rootkit in any earlier patch throughout the last 14 years and since Tencent is not to trust very much, I'd argue it's safe to say that anyone that has had League on their PC installed, might have a bricked network regardless.

@@user-pe6ct7ut8t I agree with the sentiment here, I have a certain risk tolerance, Vanguard goes beyond that. Also I do not have Vanguard, I did not install PBE or Valorant.

​@@user-pe6ct7ut8tyou will definitely notice an attempt to install a kernel driver. There would be unusual confirmation windows.