I don't have anything I new I could write about here. The investigation is going, but things seem to move very slowly. Also stars did not buy my silence I'll be the first one to write here when we get news.

I never doubted you.

Didn't you and other Finns send your laptops off to be checked for malware? What happened with that?

+1

Can't say anything as long as the investigation is going on..

OOOO like real cops and robbers talk.

Wow I missed this the first time around, scary stuff, I hope it gets resolved.

There's an article on Jens' Barcelona story in Raymond, a Finnish gambling magazine. I haven't read it yet but somebody in a Finnish forum told it says F-secure found a rootkit installed on the laptop. Everything on that laptop could be seen by third party including hole cards.

^ That's sick

A translation of full story would be appreciated

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and illegal. Cliffs are fine, but not full stories.

Omfg , further explaination on rootkit pls! How difficult is it? Extra hardware? Etc.

link pls? I found nothing on ray.fi

The article is in a Finnish magazine, just read it. It says that he got his lappy searched by F-secure (well known/reliable Finnish company) and they found a trojan that could be used to see hole cards. The installation had failed because they had to return the machine to the room too soon because Jens returned. Nothing else new in it, this was basically the entire story and no further explanations.

Well I debated whether or not to post a reply to this since I figure it will get buried in the traffic of this huge thread.
I'm glad everything got resolved and it does feel like an inside job.
Facts that I know to be 100% accurate except number 2:

1. The Hotel can look up at what time any key is made at the hotel and by whom.
2. The hotel camera's were all working properly basically the security team probably didn't know what the **** was going on which is kind of scary considering this is a casino hotel (98% chance) or they were playing dumb (2% chance).
3. Windows is very insecure if the person wanted to get access to your files they would have access to your files password or not. The only exception to the rule is if you have certain files encrypted in which case I personally would transfer the files and try to crack them later.
4. Your computer has log files for everything in the ~<10 minutes they had it is completely impossible to erase them without a trace.
5. I'm glad you got your laptop back, and hope you take additional security measures in the future. (even though you shouldn't have to **** humans)

I would be more interested in what type of lock is used at this hotel.

As for the weird phone calls there was probably a person in the lobby sniffing out poker players finding out what room they are in. They more than likely stayed in the hotel and probably in a room next to you. Big tournaments attracted the predators the phone calls were decoys trying to see who was in the room, it would have been more interesting to see what would have happened if you didn't answer the phone.

Anyways just my thoughts!

I read it too finally. The article doesn't mention any other sources but Jens' text. AFAIK Jens told he let F-secure investigate the computer but he never told if they found anything. These new details could be just inaccuracies by the journalist.

So, is Chuck Bass adding **** to make things more interesting, or did the article print a textmsg by Jens, or something else? Hard to grasp atm.

Is there are an online link to check, or is it a paper mag exclusively?

If somebody has added bs it's the reporter. The F-secure stuff is in the article just like Chuck Bass said. The article says "Toimittanut Mike Atkinson Jens Kyllösen tekstin pohjalta." In English it's "Edited by Mike Atkinson based on Jens Kyllönen's text/story."

There is an online version but you have to be a customer at ray.fi and there's no reason to register just for this IMO.

Thank you!

It was hard to understand the wording.

Now F-secure has confirmed they found a trojan indeed.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002647.html

Sick find. Thanks for posting. I would love it so much of the nerdy little twerps who planted the RAT's get caught and named and shamed!

And punished hard ofc

Great that there are now real facts, but really bad that the attack was real

And one more reason to leave java uninstalled if it is not necessary.

damn

This.

Cannot verify this 100% but if any of you have heard of the 'police virus' ransomware I have very strong suspicions that it also exploits java to infect.

Most of us don't need java, check and if that is the case just remove from your systems.

Pokerstars still hasn't released a final conclusive statement about this.

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?