Friday, May 14th 2021
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MSI Warns Against Malicious Afterburner Website
MSI is informing the public of a malicious software being disguised as the official MSI Afterburner software. The malicious software is being unlawfully hosted on a suspicious website impersonating as MSI's official website with the domain name https://afterburner-msi.space. MSI has no relation with this website or the aforementioned domain.
The fraudulent website imitates MSI's official webpage appearance and design, and offers downloads for MSI's Afterburner. This webpage is hosting software which may contain virus, trojan, keylogger, or other type of malicious program that have been disguised to look like MSI Afterburner. The Public is warned not to download any software from this website!Update May 14th: TechPowerUp Forums member silentbogo detected the host and CDN behind the malicious Afterburner app, and reported it to them. In response to these reports, the CDN, Hipolink, has deleted the accounts responsible for this, while the host, timeweb.ru, said that they are investigating this. Our Kudos to silentbogo.
MSI's official Afterburner website is not compromised and is safe to use. The Afterburner Software download link is currently closed due to routine maintenance. The software will be downloadable soon and you can find the latest version of Afterburner at https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards.
MSI is dedicated to providing reliable products that deliver incredible user experiences. As such, we find it our responsibility to protect those who have put their trust into our dedication. We condemn the infringement on our proprietary rights and the damage it has caused to MSI's reputation. Necessary actions to remove the malicious imposter website are underway.
The fraudulent website imitates MSI's official webpage appearance and design, and offers downloads for MSI's Afterburner. This webpage is hosting software which may contain virus, trojan, keylogger, or other type of malicious program that have been disguised to look like MSI Afterburner. The Public is warned not to download any software from this website!Update May 14th: TechPowerUp Forums member silentbogo detected the host and CDN behind the malicious Afterburner app, and reported it to them. In response to these reports, the CDN, Hipolink, has deleted the accounts responsible for this, while the host, timeweb.ru, said that they are investigating this. Our Kudos to silentbogo.
MSI's official Afterburner website is not compromised and is safe to use. The Afterburner Software download link is currently closed due to routine maintenance. The software will be downloadable soon and you can find the latest version of Afterburner at https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards.
MSI is dedicated to providing reliable products that deliver incredible user experiences. As such, we find it our responsibility to protect those who have put their trust into our dedication. We condemn the infringement on our proprietary rights and the damage it has caused to MSI's reputation. Necessary actions to remove the malicious imposter website are underway.
18 Comments on MSI Warns Against Malicious Afterburner Website
UPDATE:
Victory #1. Per my request Hipolink already deleted suspicious accounts.
Victory #2. Timeweb already replied that they're on it.
So, the moral of this story, kids, is - be proactive. Cause from my standpoint it looks like an equivalent of reporters filming a live robbery and telling how bad the crime rate is nowadays, before even calling the police.
UPDATE #2:
Apparently puny silentbogo with his angry emails has more power(or common sense) than multi-billion dollar corpo. Website has been taken off somewhere in-between their first reply and my trip to the office.
IANA would never go for assigning a zone to a crypto based registrar, at least not yet. There are crypto names, but you need to be running the wallet to view them (like namecoin as an example). This is not the problem at all.
Also Chia doesn't even use GPUs. You are a wizzard, Harry!
Or a hairy wizzard, you pick.
Seems too much of a coincidence to me.
can't say the word "corporate" with the word "rat" in it.