I'm so confused.

In the other news, a local hammer manufacturer sued by the local jewelry store for producing a tool a local criminal used to break into it, despite the manual saying it's not meant for this use.

I hope it already is a rule when it comes to lua scripts. The only reason for obfuscating lua code I can think about is to hide its contents, which (IMO) goes against the open source nature of Beam content and poses a decent security risk (even excluding this vulnerability we're discussing in this thread).



On a side note, this one here makes me curious – it only popped out a few weeks ago, didn't get that much coverage, and now everybody is blaming Beam for "allowing" it to happen.

Beam is a very niche vector of attack, even if you want to spread malware to randoms on the internet. If they aimed at Disney, it sounds more like they used Beam to cover up their actual ways. Or, someone deliberately wants to smear poop over BeamNG's name.

 

I was about to say that it's basically like every other bigger game, but then I realized that BeamMP makes it much much worse. I expect that you don't even need to actually use the infected mod, as just enabling it (which it does by default) can trigger the malicious Lua code.

 

Can someone tell me about the Disney thing? I was completely unaware

 

Some Disney employee downloaded a mod which had a hidden virus in it and hackers stole 1 TB of data from that company
Source: AR12GAMING, idk if they’re relible

 

AR12GAMING is a racing game YouTuber and a Twitch streamer. he's no news source.

 

oh thanks, good to know. I just saw his tweet about it

 

Yeah, he’s just informing people about it, knowing he and his viewers play BeamNG.

 

ok thank you for telling me

 

Sorry but 'BBC' and 'trustable source' do NOT belong in the same sentence.. ever

 

His sourceless claims were pretty bold. I don’t think people are aware of the legality problems that can arise from ranting off headlines as facts.

 

The British broadcasting channel? You mean it seriously or is it for some other reason

 

Seriously lol, im from Britain and all they spew out their mouths is lies, lies and more lies. They especially love protecting pedophiles and covering up their dodgy pasts.
Disgrace of a news network, but theyre all like this nowadays.

 

So are the people that downloaded that leaked mk4 mod cooked? I assume its this: https://www.beamng.com/threads/volkswagen-golf-mk4-big-update.95015/page-7

Or another guy's mk4, forgetting his name. Sheik I think?

 

Woah! I honestly wouldn't expect that from a public network but still...

 

Do you not cross reference the news... ever? I mean it's kinda their thing... They mislead and fabricate whatever they need to push a narrative. I could go on however, this isn't the time or place to do so

 

Well 0.32.5 i think was to release some delayed content, or to tide us over until 0.33.

And mod approvals are suspended because a bunch of flurries hacked Disney using a Beam.ng mod. So their combing all repo mods just to make sure their safe.

 

Spoiler

I would expect that (and I've already seen it an innumerable amount of times) from private news networks. I'm from Spain and we have a public news source for the whole country called RTVE and another separate public network for each autonomous community. These are all trustable since they try to be as impartial as possible and do not twist news for greater attention since they are funded with our money lol

However yes, there are lots of private news sources that twist their headlines to their likings and their sponsors' likings

Sorry this is out of topic and will end right here

 

When they're done doing whatever they're doing, and the mod updates come in, it will be like christmas morning

 

Did they ever fix the back end of the repository after the Hirochi CCF?