Redworm

Around 2-3 days ago, I was playing Epic Minigames with a friend, to try and take a nostalgia trip. He said he had to go, so I said my goodbyes and all of that. I continued playing for about an hour until I got a message on Roblox. It was one of my old friends who hadn't spoken to me in around 5 years. We conversed for a little while, he agreed to add me on Steam (yes, I still use Steam). He invited me to a group chat with all of his friends as well. After that I was quite tired since it was around 11 PM. I went to bed, not knowing I had just made the worst mistake that I've had in a while. You see, the link he sent was a sort of malware link, which was made to look like a Steam link, and did redirect to Steam, but inside of the link was a site, which silently downloaded a virus I now know is called Redworm. But this wasn't any regular virus.

I woke up in the morning, went outside, worked out, etc, then hopped on Roblox to see what was going on. The friend (not the old one) was on Epic Minigames again, so I decided to join. We played for about an hour and a half, until my game got disconnected. I tried rejoining, but it gave me an error, so I refreshed the page, only to find out that I was banned for 2 weeks. This surprised me, as I had done nothing that broke ToS. So I appealed to Roblox, letting them know that it wasn't me, and they responded back in a skeptical manner, saying they would keep me banned. I let my friends know on Steam, and the old friend (we'll just call him Nick from now on), acted normal, as well as surprised. I was quite upset because I was obviously banned for no reason, but I was also panicked as I knew that this was NOT me. So I decided to watch Netflix for the rest of the day (yes, I'm quite lazy). After it got dark, I decided to go to bed.

When I woke up and checked Steam the next morning, my friend (not Nick) had spammed my PMs asking why I was acting so strange that night. I was quite panicked AGAIN, because I knew my Roblox was banned, but I also knew that, again, this wasn't me. So I let him know that I had went to bed way before all that happened. He was quite confused, because he and I both don't lie to each other. He laughed it off, and said that I got him. But I had to keep reminding him that it wasn't a joke. We decided to hop in voice chat and after the whole VC session, he believed me from there on. Nick had messaged me in my PMs, telling me that he did NOT send the steam group-chat link, and that for the whole time up until now, he hadn't been online. He hadn't even known how I got into the group chat in the first place. He told me to run a virus scan, so I did, and it indeed detected a program called R.dwrm7!. I clicked remove on the virus, but to my dismay, it didn't get removed. I spammed the remove button until it FINALLY disappeared (about 100 clicks later). I asked Nick if he had let anyone else on his account, which he denied. I did some searching on Google, and I asked him if he had been involved in any ban waves, to which he agreed. (He doesn't hack, he was just falsely flagged in those waves). I told him that ban waves VERY RARELY cause a breach in data for one individual only. So we knew what happened. His account was targeted by a Roblox hacking group, in which he sent out an identical, pretty much same group-chat link to all his friends who were in the GC at the time, as well as me. They didn't click the link, since they were already in the GC, but I did. And by doing that, I had exposed myself to one of the worst viruses that nobody knew about. I told him to enable 2FA, sign out of all other sessions, log out and log back in, so he did. We basically shrugged it off thereafter but the virus was still in effect. I was tired from all the panicking I had been doing, so I took a nap for a few hours.

When I woke up, and opened Chrome, the computer automatically opened Roblox. To my shock, I was unbanned (it had not yet been 2 weeks). I thought my appeal may have been accepted, but then I remembered their response email, which said that it had been denied. I saw Nick and my other friend (We can just call him TJ from now on) on Blood and Iron, so I decided to join. We played for a few hours, and then I got off to go outside for a little bit. When I came back, I had an error on my computer which read, "This computer has been locked due to reasonable suspicion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation". I could not do anything on my computer. The keyboard was locked, the mouse was locked in position, and I could still see the Roblox tab opened in the background. I sent my computer to a technician, but even he was unable to fix it. All he was able to do was unlock the keyboard, but only a few keys worked. He said the best option is to destroy the computer (which I didn't do, this was an expensive computer). That night, I was going to visit TJ (since he doesn't live far away). When I got to his house and knocked on the door, nobody answered. I messaged him but there was no response. He always responded, so this put me on edge. I figured he was probably sleeping and forgot that I was coming over, so I walked back home. When I got back into my room, I was in complete shock and panic when I saw that my entire room had been ransacked. I called the police, they came, but found no evidence of anything. After that night, I decided to play Roblox on my phone. I played for a little while, but oddly, TJ was still not online. He's always online. I got a message from my mom, as well as my dad. It was only then that I learned the horrifying truth. TJ was found dead in his room, blood on his monitor. The cause of death had been ruled as a GSW. All I can think is that this had to have been relative to the hack, because Nick stopped responding to me a day later. I still don't know the whereabouts of Nick, nor if he is ok. I can only hope the same thing doesn't happen to him or me. Another day later, after my room had been completely cleaned up, I got another horrifying message from my mom, telling me that Nick had been found dead, and his death was also ruled a GSW. I'm currently staying at my parent's house, and all windows in this room have been sealed off for my protection, as I feel that I might be next.

TL;DR: Roblox hack may have lead to the death of my two best friends.