Hacker News Reader

Suspicious of an invite? Back around my college years it was very common to get an unexpected invite to a game. Usually friends decided they wanted to play a game and then want to grab whatever other friends are available to fill out their team. In that case you just spam invites and take the first people who accept it.

View on HN

If its not someone you just played with and isn't on your friends list, I feel like most people don't really interact with the message. CSGO has had so many skin scammers through chats that it's basically expected that you're being hit up by someone trying to get into your account for skins or trade scam you.

This is much worse than those situations, but luckily (and unluckily) I think the CSGO culture is fairly prepared to avoid random invites to parties.

If the attacker gets code execution on just one victim, it should be possible to send invites to all of their friends. So you can't rely on just interacting with people you know well.

Personally I usually text or am texted by the relevant friends, we jump in discord, and then we hop into a game, pretty much in that order

Reply on news.ycombinator.com