All the malicious links seem to be to a place called baidu.com. So whatever this is, it's from a single source.

baidu is Chinese censored google clone

That's what I found.

^if thats true i have to see this

"mao is a fat chink"

SOMEONE SAID CHINK WITHOUT KNOWING IT WAS A SLUR TODAY

Hmmm..

O-O

Apparently this has been happening for about a year.

https://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Link-to-quot-baidu-quot-website-sent-to-all-of-my-contacts/td-p/4461728

Skype, sucking as hard as it does, hasn't fixed it.

Or maybe they have?

no

and by extent Microsoft

i dont think so

ive had like 4 skypes hacke

sd

which is the company I am a PR slut for

It only seems to be affecting old, abandoned accounts, meaning on computers that are not actively running Skype. So that if malware is using it, they'd be using an old version of Skype.

A lot of people forcibly prevent Skype from updating because the newer versions of Skype are literal eye cancer.

*screams*

I stopped caring how horrible the newest version of Skype was once I moved to Discord.

So I just let it update itself.

Before that, I'd replace the update exe it downloads with a read-only text file named the same and with access rights removed. And I'd block the IP address it used to updates. Because Microsoft loved those forced updates and updating things stealthily without your consent.

By the time I got this new computer I was mostly converted over to Discord so I didn't bother implementing those barriers on Skype on this PC.

@Springband true, true

How do you do fellow kids

Juicy

Helloooo

I is good

Im ok

After browsing that thread, I think I know what's happening.

I think the accounts that are being compromised are on android-based phones and tablets.

oh

maybe

A lot of people don't realize you need anti-malware on those too.

all my account were from android phones

And a lot of advertising in games are infected.

That'd explain why the users in the thread are so confused about removing malware because they're checking their computers, not their mobile devices.

I have Skype on my tablet but that tablet has anti-malware scanners on it.

I also don't do those stupid games.