Twitch streamer Lululuvely revealed that the PC she used to stream from TwitchCon had a ‘hijacker’ program installed before she used it, potentially compromising her accounts.
TwitchCon is Twitch’s annual convention, allowing streamers, staff, and fans to get together in San Diego and celebrate the previous year. However, this year’s event has been full of drama for the Amazon-owned platform.
Popular streamer Emiru was assaulted during her meet and greet as a man grabbed her face and attempted to kiss her without consent. Twitch had promised extra security following pre-event concerns from a number of streamers, but Emiru downplayed Twitch CEO Dan Clancy’s claim that the attacker was removed instantly by security.
Now, streamer Lululuvely has revealed that the PC she used at Twitchcon had likely suffered a security breach, as it had a hijacking program pre-installed before she used it.
Lululuvely questions TwitchCon PC security issue
Lulu was one of a number of streamers to use a PC that wasn’t her own personal device at TwitchCon, and revealed that a program called SafeFinder had popped up.
“I haven’t seen anything about what happened to the computer that I was on, but I’m like so curious if that program was on all the computers at TwitchCon,” she said.
“It’s a malicious browser hijacker and potentially unwanted program, but that was on the computer I was using. I was streaming, and then browsers just started opening up and typing things in.”
As per Microsoft, SafeFinder is a malware that presents as a browser and automatically redirects to malicious adverts and pages that say your PC’s safety is compromised. Not only is this stress-inducing, but could lead to details being stolen.
Lulu noted that it wasn’t the “worst thing” to happen at TwitchCon, but added that it wasn’t being talked about by anyone else. She had, already, changed passwords because of it.
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