Call Of Duty: WW2 pulled offline amid hacking claims after it starts messing with PCs and citing random lawyers

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• SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• doortodeath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Apex Legends does use Kernel anticheat

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• Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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