It has lately come to our consideration that our most up-to-date print run of Higurashi When They Cry Hou + (USB Hardcopy) has been focused in what seems to be a provide chain malware assault. We’re nonetheless within the means of investigating state of affairs and consulting authorized counsel about our choices, however instantly we advise that anybody who has bought Higurashi When They Cry Hou + (USB Hardcopy) after 7/9/2025 chorus from utilizing the USB stick to put in the sport, because the Home windows installer on this printing seems to have been compromised. Please notice that the obtain editions of the sport (out there on MangaGamer.com, Steam, and GoG) have NOT been affected by this challenge.
We estimate that roughly 64 copies of the affected batch have been offered. 16 of which have been offered at conventions and 10 wholesaled to a 3rd social gathering vendor, with the remaining 38 offered instantly on our retailer. We’re already processing refunds for bank card purchases that we have been in a position to hint. Orders made together with pre-order objects which haven’t but launched shall be shipped corrected copies of Higurashi When They Cry Hou + (USB Hardcopy) when the pre-order objects are able to ship. In case you consider you bought a compromised copy of Higurashi When They Cry Hou + (USB Hardcopy) at a conference or from a 3rd social gathering vendor, please e-mail help@mangagamer.com and embody “Higurashi USB” within the topic line.
The compromised installer needs to be detected by Home windows Defender and has a distinct file dimension than the unique installer: Unique – 267.69MB vs Compromised – 268.42MB.
In case you did try to put in the sport from the compromised print run, here’s what we all know in regards to the assault: We consider the malicious code to be the Floxif virus. So far as we will inform, solely the Home windows installer seems to have been compromised. We advocate working a full system scan with Home windows Defender or third social gathering anti-virus software program like Malwarebytes should you assume your system might have been uncovered.
Primarily based on our findings, it seems that solely this explicit run of this explicit title has been affected, however out of an abundance of warning we shall be briefly halting the sale of all of our USB bodily editions produced alongside or after the compromised Higurashi Hou+ printing whereas we run extra exams to make sure their security. We want to emphasize that regardless of experiences of false positives from anti-virus software program being a moderately widespread prevalence with our titles prior to now, that is the first, and to our data, solely time there was a doubtlessly official assault on any of our merchandise.
Moreover, present bodily version pre-orders will stay open; nonetheless, please be suggested that launch dates could also be change because of this incident.
We are going to preserve you all up to date with any new data concerning this incident and on what steps we shall be taking sooner or later when it turns into out there.
