Some upgrades will be performed on 12.09.2017 @ 6:00 AM Central EU time that will cause our servers & the servers hosted by us to go offline between what we estimate will be 30-60 minutes.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

A planned maintenance event is scheduled to take place on 21 November 2016 @ 06:00 CET, a downtime lasting between 15 and 60 minutes is expected.

I'll update this post in case unexpected problems arise, though they should not.

Internap will be rebooting 2 of its routers on 24 March between 00:00 and 04:00 CET. This will lead to a couple of instances of connectivity loss to our servers, lasting a few minutes each time.

We've seen quite a few reports recently of maliciously intended servers being able to download malware on the PC's of connected players due to exploits in the Source engine.

From past experiences we know Valve moves very slow in patching these so don't count on a fix coming out soon.

This is a reminder to only play on trusted, old & well established servers,
make sure the servers you connect to are the ones you think they are, check their IP to make sure they are not cloned by someone to have the same name or similar.

For more info on this new exploit see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-UXrmvjV04
and

https://np.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/46uz6f/psa_flaws_in_sourceengine_games_allow_malicious/

and

https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1507128

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/46px2w/psa_steamid_spoofing_on_every_steam_product_and/

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Older exploits that did basically the same thing but in slightly different ways:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/WeAreUnitedGamers#announcements/detail/43137590289947320
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/WeAreUnitedGamers#announcements/detail/698422928772644821

Stay safe.

A few months ago this was circulating around https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/WeAreUnitedGamers#announcements/detail/43137590289947320 and has been patched.

Now, a new exploit that works in the same way more or less is out in the wild.

See
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/40r0us/psa_source_engine_dll_exploit_found/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/40kjmm/psa_do_not_join_unknown_csgo_servers_they_can/

for more info.

This exploit, like the last one, can only be performed server side.

I would strongly recommend only connecting to; trusted, old & well established servers for the time being, make sure the servers you connect to are the ones you think they are, check their IP to make sure they are not cloned by someone to have the same name or similar.

Stay safe.

Edit: To clarify a bit, this exploit seems to affect all Source engine 2003+ games, it's not limited to 1 game.

Servers successfully exploiting this vulnerability can gain complete access to the victim's PC.