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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago

Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago
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Rockstar Games' servers have been under fire from DDoS attacks causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online.
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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    I’m on the side of the attackers on this one. BattleEye is trash.

    • 🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌@lemmy.world
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      How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone’s hardware for the lawls.

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        Something along those lines already happened…

        https://www.pcgamer.com/ransomware-abuses-genshin-impacts-kernel-mode-anti-cheat-to-bypass-antivirus-protection/

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        Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.

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          On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them

          Are you sure?

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    Good shit. Privacy and Security cannot be a casualty of cheat prevention.

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