ALGS regional finals suspended due to hacking
I'm actually laughing a little because regular gamers have been complaining about cheaters for years and nothing has been done about it. If this doesn't light a fire under EA and Respawn, nothing wi...
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Let me first start telling you who the hackers are: Their infosec is awful, Destroyer2009 really is 15 years old, he played on xbox until december 2023, R4ndom was a guy that did reverse engineering back in 2009-2010, was a really skilled individual but this is not him, someone else took the nickname. They didn't do anything new and unknown, this is all known exploits in the hacking community https://speedtest.vet/ https://vidmate.bid/ .
There is no RCE, you won't get ransomware by playing Apex. Client is not compromised, it uses heavily modified source engine which is known for RCE but this is not the case here.
@Asmodeus566PirateSoftware pretty much had confirmed it was a compromised system.
There's clips of Hal in particular, which showed he downloaded something he didn't know what it did.
About 30 minutes after the tournament, Malwarebytes told Hal there was an incoming connection on one of his ports that was not from his network.
So, was it RCE?
- Seems to be
Was it from Apex/EAC being compromised?
- No, Hal downloaded something that compromised his system. I do not know about Gen.
Does this still need to be investigated?
- Absolutely. The fact that Apex has been hacked multiple times to such a degree means major actions needs to be taken.
The hacks I'm talking about being major are:
- The 4th of July "Save Titanfall" fiasco a few years ago, where we couldn't play the game
- The chaos from Tufi, where no one was safe, mainly streamers
- The recent bot army last month or so, where streamers were targeted by 40+ accounts in ranked
- The mass giving of 4k+ packs and the fact that they can be opened on user's accounts without their permission
- This ALGS embarrassmentEA/Respawn should of fully taken the game offline until they looked into this issue completely if they truly cared about keeping us safe and all that.
They also would of taken action much sooner, and not stay silent. The fact that EAC and Epic Games responded in a timely manner AND a Billizard staffed professional hacker guy, (PirateSoftware) got involved and was on the case almost instantly means that EA/Respawn were lagging behind.
Radio silence for 48 or so hours is NOT a good look.
EAC/Epic responded quickly since a possible RCE could affect EAC and Epic owns EAC. PirateSoftware responded most likely due to a huge peak in interest. If I was as professional as him, I would be on this case too.
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