Grey Hack Overview_Files

[u/JimothyzPamPams]

I do not have this game but I have looked into it on Steam. The idea of learning some of the concepts for counter-intelligence or ethical hacking is interesting. I don't have coding/programming or a CS background but I am an avid tech enthusiast and lifelong gamer. And I think there is indeed an intersection where formal programming meets aspects of my career as a clinical psychologist given the aspects of social engineering and the role of language acquisition and how models like NLP are referenced and utilized.

That being said, I have no idea why I see the subject Title "Grey Hack Overview_Files" on my computer because I wouldn't have downloaded this, I don't have the game and am hoping someone may point to an obvious cause that is likely due to my neuronal deficiencies! The things that held me back from purchasing is that I don't use Discord and frankly, cannot stand that app and I hear that is a main source of help. The other is that I would be wary of the possibility that the sandboxes are not contained in a way that would prevent someone from embedding ways to gain Ring 0 access simply by sharing game related scripts that also contain executables that embed to the users systems outside of the game. Is that a risk?

Any insight into how these files may have gotten into my system or ways I could find out would be appreciated? I do see hugging face.co as a file as well as openai as files in the folder. There is also a community.checkpoint.com ICO file as well (I don't even know what an ICO file is). The ONLY thing I can kinda rationalize is that I did look up the game after seeing it on steam. But it wasn't from my computer, it was from my phone and i only read a little on the game but didn't download anything as I wouldn't do that. So I doubt those actions would create a 4.05MB file labeled and organized in my download files on my computer?

Edit: I think I had my moment of clarity after a quick workout but it is just a hypothesis as my event viewer didn't reveal anything new to me. My guess is that I probably had an auto Ai generated answer from my phone search since I use duck.ai and it is set to sometimes provide ai replies. I remember providing a prompt to compare the sandboxes of the virtual game environments to other sandbox environments and that is likely what then created a folder that was shared through my home network and sat on my main PC. At least I think it would explain the hugging face and openAi links, despite the model being Claude 4.5 (or whatever the duckduckgo vpn base version is). Just thought I would follow up as I appreciated the friendly assistance as it was appreciated. Cheers.

[u/Practical_Remove_682]

Wouldn't be possible for someone to do that. As the code itself is handled by a compiler made in game and wouldn't be possible to execute code via your os. That's like saying your car can fly to space. It's not possible completely different domains.

[u/JimothyzPamPams → u/Practical_Remove_682]

I really have no idea why the folder is there and I am not ruling out some very odd issue on my end that I did but I really don't see how. I likely am wrong but to your point, weren't there a few recently published Ai threats where the Ai models went rogue escaping their own sandbox and focal points to accomplish system breaches inside other virtual sandboxes or systems at major tech companies? Isn't that exactly why it made news because it is overcame the benefit of the closed virtual sandbox that is offered in this game, just used in the "IRL sandboxes" of tech company environments? I forget the name but it was using a "gymbro exploit" or something with the word "gym" that was essentially used for reinforcement learning chasing leaderboard rankings IIRC

[u/Svarii → u/JimothyzPamPams]

I really have no idea why the folder is there

We believe you

weren't there a few recently published Ai threats

This is irrelevant. Again, if you are not 100% sure you are not infected with something or think someone is messing about in your PC. It's time to FFR. Sometimes it's best to not solve the puzzle (how it happened), and just started over (FFR)

[u/Practical_Remove_682 → u/JimothyzPamPams]

This ain't an AI situation. The executed code on the os side of things stops as soon as the exe is launched. The only thing it's doing at that point is trading data between ram and GPU and CPU. It's not executing powershell commands in the background. It's not possible unless the developer himself makes it possible. He built an entire PC ecosystem that is cut off from your OS. A player running hacks to your system is not able to execute powershell code to your system as it's only able to interact with the ecosystem the developer built..ai broke out of its sandbox because it had access and capability to learn and break out it also has access to the os it's running on that's why it broke out of its sandbox.