I’ll probably just uninstall studio until this is resolved, though it’s not necessary it’s probably good to be safe. Good news is, unless this is only targeting really specific people, not much bad has happened from this.
some roblox exploiting incidents are WAY worse than the current ones, honestly. The crosswoods incident was REALLY bad, so was when people hid roblox transactions under GUI somehow (the first time, okay, maybe just an oversight, but then it happened again recently even though it was “fixed”). The people who orchestrate this stuff should probably go to prison, given how much some of the people who make a living off this platform lost. Props to Roblox for getting a warning out fast, though. It’s good they’re informing people of this.
One quick, unrelated note I wanted to add: Before reading this, I was experiencing an issue where the studio UI was enlarged and slightly low-quality (this happens every time I update studio, but normally I can just change an app property and it fixes it). However, this time the issue stayed there even after changing the property and restarting the app. Not sure if it’s related, but its why I came here to devforum and happened to notice the exploit warnings.
TL;DR: just be careful, props to roblox for warning us, and i had some weird issues just now.
I have a question; my pc has crashed an ungodly number of times today (around 11-12 times) and I’ve been scripting a lot today. I am really concerned, could that be related to this?
My studio client has been popping up prompts about missing or corrupted files before the exploit. And it only happens when I have a poor connection, well just for me.
I don’t think the newest exploit would be influenced in this case so you are fine
Anyway, try to reinstall and open studio as administrator, if you are using windows.
It’s not that bad. The vulnerability was documented and shared with Roblox, so Roblox was able to patch it extremely quickly. Any other bugs which arose are likely unrelated or a result of a rushed update, but the hack itself is fixed and you don’t need to worry.
It required you to have a plugin with the vulnerability installed, and as long as none of the plugins you had were malicious and were by trusted users. Then I think you should be fine. But I would run an antivirus scan and look for anything suspicious.
As for if your safe, I can almost guarantee you are. The people who found it never used it maliciously, they planned on reporting it to hackerone in order to claim bounty money. They ended up leaking it publicly because it was going to be patched by Roblox, and they could no longer report it for money. It was patched extremely quickly after it was released publicly, and to my knowledge 0 plugins on the marketplace actually had it, the only plugins with it where used for testing and not ever published.
If you have updated your studio, I would be willing to bet money on the fact your safe. If you haven’t, go do that.
I believe it was the hack, a few days ago my pc stopped detecting my gpu and it was really overheating even when I wasn’t using it (bitcoin mining probably.) After that a few days later i couldn’t boot into my pc, and when i used the Explorer cmd from recovery mode my pc was spammed with weird files and processes. Once I ended a process my pc rebooted and after that it didn’t ever show the bios again. I’ve had to use a spare motherboard and lose months of data due to this. I wish Roblox was more secure.
The BIOS certainly isn’t impossible to access, there’s certain vulnerabilities in them, and on devices such as laptops, you generally update within your OS, and not with any flashing process before you get into your bootloader.