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There is a Chinese player that has taken effective control of various internet-related entities in the Seychelles. Various ongoing court-cases currently. So th

There is a Chinese player that has taken effective control of various internet-related entities in the Seychelles. Various ongoing court-cases currently. So the seychelles traffic is likely really disguised chinese traffic.

sylware 1y ago
I forgot about that: all the nice game binaries from them running directly on nearly all systems...
- lukan 1y ago
  Huh? Who is them in this case?
  - ronsor 1y ago
    They're referring to the fact that Chinese game companies (Tencent, Riot through Tencent, etc.) all have executables of varying levels of suspicion (i.e. anti-cheat modules) running in the background on player computers. Then they're making the claim that those binaries have botnet functionality.
    - sylware 1y ago
      They can exploit local priviledge escalation flaws without "RCE". And you are right, kernel anti-cheat are rumored to be weaponized by hackers, and making the previous even worse. And when the kid is playing his/her game at home, if daddy or mummy is a person of interest, they are already on the home LAN... Well, you get the picture: nowhere to run, orders of magnitude worse than it was before. Nowadays, the only level of protection the administrator/root access rights give you, is to mitigate any user mistake which would break his/her system... sad...
supriyo-biswas 1y ago
I don't think these are "Chinese players" and is linked to [1], although it may be that the hands changed many times that the IP addresses have been leased or bought by Chinese entities. [1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/350973-man-connected-to-african-ip-address-heist-running-for-board-position-at-european-ip-address-organisation.html https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/350973-man-connected...
galaxy_gas 1y ago
this all from Cloud Innovation vpns,proxies,spam,bots CN Seychelles IP holder
sylware 1y ago
omg... that's why my self-hosted servers are getting nasty trafic from SC all the time. The explanation is that easy??
lwansbrought 1y ago
> So the seychelles traffic is likely really disguised chinese traffic. Soon: chineseplayer.io
conradev 1y ago
Interesting: https://techafricanews.com/2025/07/24/smart-africa-calls-for-coordinated-continental-action-to-protect-africas-digital-sovereignty/ https://techafricanews.com/2025/07/24/smart-africa-calls-for...

sylware 1y ago

I forgot about that: all the nice game binaries from them running directly on nearly all systems...

lukan 1y ago
Huh? Who is them in this case?
- ronsor 1y ago
  They're referring to the fact that Chinese game companies (Tencent, Riot through Tencent, etc.) all have executables of varying levels of suspicion (i.e. anti-cheat modules) running in the background on player computers. Then they're making the claim that those binaries have botnet functionality.
  - sylware 1y ago
    They can exploit local priviledge escalation flaws without "RCE". And you are right, kernel anti-cheat are rumored to be weaponized by hackers, and making the previous even worse. And when the kid is playing his/her game at home, if daddy or mummy is a person of interest, they are already on the home LAN... Well, you get the picture: nowhere to run, orders of magnitude worse than it was before. Nowadays, the only level of protection the administrator/root access rights give you, is to mitigate any user mistake which would break his/her system... sad...

supriyo-biswas 1y ago

I don't think these are "Chinese players" and is linked to [1], although it may be that the hands changed many times that the IP addresses have been leased or bought by Chinese entities. [1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/350973-man-connected-to-african-ip-address-heist-running-for-board-position-at-european-ip-address-organisation.html https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/350973-man-connected...

galaxy_gas 1y ago

this all from Cloud Innovation vpns,proxies,spam,bots CN Seychelles IP holder

sylware 1y ago

omg... that's why my self-hosted servers are getting nasty trafic from SC all the time. The explanation is that easy??

lwansbrought 1y ago

> So the seychelles traffic is likely really disguised chinese traffic. Soon: chineseplayer.io

conradev 1y ago

Interesting: https://techafricanews.com/2025/07/24/smart-africa-calls-for-coordinated-continental-action-to-protect-africas-digital-sovereignty/ https://techafricanews.com/2025/07/24/smart-africa-calls-for...