Activision have taken the Xbox PC version of Call Of Duty: WW2 offline to fix an "issue" after images of an alleged hack began circulating on social media.
  • Sal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    Almost every old CoD game has this issue unfortunately. And too little people play them for Activision to bother fixing them.

  • doortodeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    So kernel level anti-cheat can be cracked and even exploited like this, who would have ever guessed…

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      It’s probably not the anti cheat that is being exploited, or at least there is no indication of it and it’s not necessary for rce.
      Apex legend had the same a while back and the don’t use kernel ac

        • Orygin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          My bad. Was EAC kernel level since the beginning? I thought it wasn’t when Apex was released, so maybe that changed but I can’t find anything on Google.
          Edit: Still couldn’t find anything on Google so I asked a LLM and seems like it was added after the game’s release. Ofc it may be entirely made up, as I can’t verify the info.
          Still I’m pretty sure it’s not a fault in the anti cheat, games have much wider attack surface and game dev are not generally experts on cyber sec. Plus both CoD and Apex are based on older engines who had their code reverse engineered, leaked or were public.
          An RCE was already discovered on the older MW2 so it could have been ported to the recent games.

  • Photuris@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    15 days ago

    And now I’m officially 100% done with gaming, since that’s the last game I’d continued playing from time to time (when I have a spare few minutes and a whim to fire it up, that is).

    Oh well, part of getting older. I think I also have Halo and a Modern Warfare on that XBox, but, meh. WWII was the best CoD (the most fun, at least to me).