The Super User Scandal

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After reading it, I'm not as concerned about it happening. I mean, you had to download something. It's a little bit different, or well, actually, it's plenty different than the Absolute Poker superuser issue. But this is also the reason I really wish they would just get these governments' asses moving on legalizing and regulating it, especially in my damn country. They talk about trying to protect people, but yet they don't protect the poker players. Oh yeah, play on a site if you want. We're not going to protect you. What we want to tax you. You know, it's been how many years since 2011? Can we get moving before? I mean, come on. All right, end of my rant.
 
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Attackers see user activity, all files on the computer, and can erase their traces. If I fall asleep at the poker table, hackers will make my move. It's a shame the police aren't always competent in these matters. The age of dangerous technologies.
 
hardongear said:
It's really only the high stakes players who can play up too 24+ tables and still maintain a decent win rate. Which then I can see why they need such software. The rest of us only need Poker Tracker 4 or Holdem Manager 3 or 4 whatever version their on now. And they've both been around forever and are both safe/clean software.

Cheers!!!
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High stakes MTT players don't typically play a ton of tables. It's more mid & low stakes from my understanding.

Lots of people use the table management software. (ie. streamers)
 
Goggelheimer said:
Sorry to say that your misconception of pc security is lacking some small parts.

If a program or tool let´s say JuroJin (trusted installer and known as one of the tools for this scam) makes such a path exclusion a good AV solution should alarm the user directly. This is a baseline security breach.
Sadly only some consumer AV-Systems (Microsoft Defender, Bitdefender Total Security, Kaspersky Plus/Premium and some others) have the abilty to detect this kind of attack on a system. Most solutions are on enterprise level.

An automatically created path exclusion without user consent is a baseline‑security breach (even bypassed through UAC mechanics).

  1. A core protection layer is disabled. The excluded folder is no longer scanned, creating a blind spot attackers can exploit.
  2. It matches known defense‑evasion behavior. Ransomware, loaders, APT groups, and sideloading attacks commonly add exclusions to hide activity.
  3. System integrity is broken. Baseline security assumes protections behave as expected. An unsolicited exclusion violates that assumption, regardless of whether the tool is signed.
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thank you was worried
 
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Jurojin Poker has issued an official statement confirming that it too has been compromised. The company revealed that it had been the target of a highly targeted attack that spanned a period of nearly 12 months.Among the known victims is the Spanish professional player Ignacio Morón, who revealed that he lost between 100,000 and 200,000 dollars to the suspicious account. In a single session lasting just 15 minutes, he lost 60,000 dollars.CoinPoker reacted extremely quickly: their security team detected the anomaly in less than a week, blocked the suspicious account, seized $100,000 and redistributed it as compensation to the affected players (including Morón).QuintAce has also launched a tool based on behavioural analysis. Rather than searching for the virus itself, it analyses the mathematical decisions made at the table. If a player consistently makes impossibly precise folds with strong hands or makes perfect raises with minimal equity only against a specific opponent, the system instantly flags them as a potential super-user.There have been several reports that the same account has been caught achieving unusually high win rates on multiple sites. Using the nickname ‘Europa’, but registered under the name ‘Paul Gregg’, CoinPoker’s security team managed to identify impossible win rates in less than a week.
 
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Luvepoker said:
But this is also the reason I really wish they would just get these governments' asses moving on legalizing and regulating it, especially in my damn country.
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Its not really a regulation or legality issue, since it was third party software for managing tables, that had been compromised.
 
fundiver199 said:
Its not really a regulation or legality issue, since it was third party software for managing tables, that had been compromised.
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100% true but it would be helpful if it was legally allowed. Well at least i would feel better about it.
 
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