Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition
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The hack may have been spread through Apex's anti-cheat software.

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times…

The volunteers at the Anti-Cheat Police Department have since issued a PSA announcing, “There is currently an RCE exploit being abused in [Apex Legends]” and that it could be delivered via from the game itself, or its anti-cheat protection. “I would advise against playing any games protected by EAC or any EA titles”, they went on to say.

As for players of the tournament, they strongly recommended taking protective measures. “It is advisable that you change your Discord passwords and ensure that your emails are secure. also enable MFA for all your accounts if you have not done it yet”, they said, “perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible. Do not take any chances with your personal information, your PC may have been exposed to a rootkit or other malicious software that could cause further damage.”

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      185·
      8 months ago

      There’s something deeply worrying about the fact that especially here on Lemmy people are so acutely aware of the audience they’re speaking to that we need to preface our messages with “I’m really on your side on this issue BUT…” because we know how easy it is to say the wrong thing and then be mobbed for it.

      One shouldn’t have to worry about any of that. Especially on anonymous internet forum. If someone comes at you for posting a twitter link then that’s their issue, not yours.

      • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        I mean, I despise Twitter myself and wish I didn’t drive traffic to their website, but this clip is just too good not to share.

      • Syn_Attck@lemmy.todayEnglish
        104·
        8 months ago

        By number of users, Lemmy is the worst forum for mobbing I’ve ever come across. You’d get similar mobbing on Reddit but there were 500x the number of users.

        I assume it’s because a mass of people came here for a staunchly idealistic reason simply because it was the alternative to reddit.

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          8 months ago

          Also that the people who don’t care about that kind of thing wouldn’t have bothered moving from Reddit in the first place, or be bothered enough to interact with the post.

    • sp6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      This clip is him installing Malwarebytes, after the hacking/cheating incident happened

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      lmfao I thought these matches were being played in person with controlled hardware??? yeah they deffo just installed malware

      edit: yeah even if this is him installing malwarebytes, im sorry but you cannot guarantee these guys dont have compromised PCs just because they’re streamers.