Hacking from Lobby?

[semipr0 402]

Recently during our absolutely joyous romp through Hackamania on our server I've been noticing something coincidental in regards to every situation.

We had a clan that was on our server a few days ago. Two members of the clan were banned after we caught them driving Black SUV's up the north east highway north of Solnichy.

Now we didn't ban every member of the clan that was on, just the drivers of the SUV's.

Now for the last 3 days our server has been constantly attacked by hackers, and every time a member of the clan that we banned from our server, that isn't banned, is just idling in the lobby of the server. They're not logged into the game environment at all.

As an experiment, after a particularly bad hack which teleported everyone into the wilderness and turned them into cows, I decided to ban the idling clan member that was in the lobby at the time.

Server went completely quiet after that for several hours and normal play appeared to resume and I thought nothing of it.

Lo and behold though about 3 hours later a new member of the clan we had problems with connected to the server and was just idling in the lobby. I kept an eye on it for about 30 minutes and then....bam, everyone on the server teleports to the top of the hotel in Chernogorosk, I quickly disconnect, check my Arma 2 Rcon...and the individual is still in the lobby.

After reviewing my RPT, server_console.log and scripts.log, the teleport to the top of the hotel literally grabbed everyone that was actively playing the game on the server. There wasn't anyone that was left out of the mass setPos change. The only person that wasn't in the list, was the new clan member that had been idling in the lobby for around 30 minutes before the event occurred.

Is it possible to run some scripts from the lobby? Without even having joined the game?

[YeeDeed 13]

the teleport to the top of the hotel literally grabbed everyone that was actively playing the game on the server. There wasn't anyone that was left out of the mass setPos change. The only person that wasn't in the list, was the new clan member that had been idling in the lobby for around 30 minutes before the event occurred.

If literally everyone but that person got teleported to the hotel, then it sure sounds like it. I doubt a hacker would also kill himself... Or maybe he would go along for the ride if he was invulnerable....