WWII Goes Offline After RCE Exploits, Allowing Hackers to Completely Take Over Users’ Systems Are Discovered

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It looks as if Microsoft perhaps should’ve spent more time reviewing the older Call of Duty title prior to releasing it on Game Pass. Call of Duty: WWII was added to Game Pass last week on June 30 and has already been taken offline. Users began reporting strange occurrences not too long after its release on Microsoft’s subscription service. Players had their gaming sessions interrupted by text pop-ups informing them that their computers had just been hacked. Some also reportedly had pornography displayed onscreen, or their PCs were remotely shut down during gameplay.

Bad actors were said to be getting access to users’ systems via RCE (distant code execution) exploits, which were still present in the sport that had originally launched in 2017 for consoles and PC. While these exploits appear to only be affecting PC users on Game Pass, knowledge of their existence isn’t latest, as some have stated they’ve been around for a while across multiple COD titles. Evidently, there are folks on the market completely satisfied to supply the code crucial to benefit from these exploits, for a price, thus allowing users to take control of other systems remotely.

The most important threat with RCE exploits is that while they might not immediately allow full access to a system, they do allow a payload to be dropped, which might install an executable file that can. Although there’s been no official acknowledgement of the exploit, Activision has taken the sport down because it investigates “reports of a difficulty”.

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