After the sudden large-scale pornography-related live streaming incident on the night of December 22, 2025 on the Racer platform, the core concerns of users focused on whether the nature of the incident was a hacking attack, whether the platform's emergency response measures were effective, what progress was made in the police's investigations, and whether the cybersecurity risks exposed by the incident had been fundamentally repaired.
The nature of the incident and the platform's response:
December 22, 22:00 to 23:00, the fast hand platform, a number of live broadcasting room focused on obscene film playback, vulgar performances and other content, part of the live broadcasting room viewers nearly 100,000 people. The user reporting channel was once congested and ineffective. Racer responded in the early morning of the 23rd that the incident was caused by "black and gray industry gang attack", and has launched an emergency plan: offline live plate, freeze abnormal accounts, repair system vulnerabilities, and to the public security organs to report to the police and the regulatory authorities. The next day at 7:00, the live function is still not fully restored.
Attack Characterization and Risk Control Vulnerabilities:
According to technical analysis, the attackers used a batch of registered "zombie accounts" to launch automated attacks at the same time, bypassing the real-name authentication and auditing system through the underlying loopholes of the live streaming interface. Industry experts pointed out that the traditional manual audit is difficult to cope with "dozens of violations per second" of the scale of the attack, exposing the lag in the platform defense system. It is noteworthy that the day before the incident, Racer just claimed that AI technology can "identify illegal content in seconds".
Industry Alert: The incident highlights the escalation of black and gray production attacks to "intelligent, cross-platform", e-commerce, finance and other fields are facing similar threats.
The direction of the platform's subsequent rectification:
Snapdragon stated that it will strengthen the ability of AI algorithms to anticipate new types of attacks and establish a collaborative defense mechanism for the industry. The regulator called on platforms to "abandon the tendency to emphasize traffic over governance" and to put content security above commercialization.
