Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This involved a wild situation where someone was giving the pros hacks like aimbots and wallhacks as they were playing in the Finals event, effectively ruining the entire thing without anyone actually attempting to cheat.

  Damn.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based on Titanfall and Titanfall 2, Respawn has a pretty fuckin terrible track record with security.

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• sp6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The clips are pretty crazy:

  • Genburten hacked (and Zer0’s POV)
  • ImperialHal hacked

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  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hal saying “I have aimbot I can’t shoot. I can’t shoot” because he’d basically mow down everyone, then when his teammates got knocked, he was like…okay nvm lemme one clip you guys.

    Hilariously, there is a chance aimbot wasn’t on when he one clipped the caustic (and that it was just straight aim assist on controller).

    Can you imagine if the hacker was more clever and didn’t make his cheats obvious for genburten?

    Everyone was on the lookout for it the next game. But what if he just subtly did it to hal (one of the best if not the best players in the game) . It would be an even bigger fucking deal.

    Accusations of cheating or aimboting already happen with pros because they are so good. Imagine having some clips of hal legit aimboting (unbeknownst to him) in a finals lobby.

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  • squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is crazy, are there more clips or compilations? I’m just finding out about it through this post

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• Dexx1s@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goddamn, it really did hit Forbes. Now I’m really interested in how Respawn will handle this one.

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  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a contributor post, not a Forbes official article.

    I read here recently that the rich people who pay attention to Forbes for investment information avoid all Forbes contributor content and focus only official article from Forbes staff.

    I don’t know how true that is, but if you believe it then until a forbes staffer writes about it in an official capacity, it hasn’t actually hit Forbes.

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    • Dexx1s@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I read here recently that the rich people who pay attention to Forbes for investment information avoid all Forbes contributor content and focus only official article from Forbes staff.

      I understand you, but they’re not the ones who matter here tbh; it’s other laymen. I don’t use Forbes, I just know what Forbes is. Looking at that page, I’d have no idea what you’re talking about. The url is Forbes, the author’s name is there, and is labelled as a senior contributor. For most of us: “we hit Forbes boys!”

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  • Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like the hackers got what they wanted out of it.

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    • Dexx1s@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They definitely did. This will easily be the top Apex news for at least a week.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wonder if this is a risk for all games that run EAC.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s certainly alarming and I hope they make a statement for it. The idea that any EAC game could have remote code exploit means anyone playing these games could be under risk of getting hacked.

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    EAC said no via twitter.com/alphaINTEL/…/1769734106395373635

    We are confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploited.

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    • iorale@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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