SCRATCHERS BEWARE, A group of hackers has created malware that we have dubbed ‘the canvas’ virus. The ‘Canvas’ virus lurks inside of projects of the infected, it tells you to ‘see inside’ and open the backdrop editor. DO NOT DO THIS, You will receive a message alerting you that you've been hacked, and will be signed out of your account. Your projects will be replaced with the infection and your profile description changes. Be safe, stay alert, and report. Copy and paste" SPREAD THE WORD!! The ‘virus’ actually explained So, it's actually not a virus, but a vulnerability/exploit that has affected many Scratchers. It works by going into the project editor (or clicking ‘see inside’) and then going to the costume/backdrop editor. When you open it, the costumes can actually do Arbitrary Code Excecution, which is a way that code can be excecuted. In the desktop/offline editors, it's even worse because then they can run malicious shell programs and steal data from you! And this is not a theoretical possibility, it has already affected multiple Scratchers. What it can do It can delete and/or hack all projects, change the description of the victim's profile, comments things on the victim's profile without their concent and run malware (only on desktop/offline editors). How to prevent it Don't open suspicious projects asked by others to open and avoid any random links. If you did get hacked: Unshare all projects, change your password and delete any comments that you didn't type ASAP.
you can read inside too, idk why you would want to do that though (wait no that sounds like I'm part of the hackers)
