Worm appears in the online hall of the classic game call of Duty 6, Activision urgently shuts down the official server.
CTOnews.com July 28 news, according to foreign media Tom's Hardware reported that the well-known classic game "Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2" multiplayer online hall suspected of a worm virus, the worm has been spread for more than a month, Activision has been emergency shutdown of the official server, and temporarily removed from the Steam platform The game.
▲ X's released by the official X account of Call of Duty As Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues to advance, a large number of melon-eating players have begun to download Activision Blizzard's well-known classic game "Nostalgia." CTOnews.com found that recently Activision officials announced that "many old game servers have been repaired," so that players can easily participate in Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode, however, server fixes, security measures have not been able to keep pace with the times, so it is not surprising that the game server was hacked.
Foreign media said that as early as the end of June this year, users in the Steam discussion area issued a warning, saying that "Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 "multiplayer mode" with virus,"and then the user analysis, found that hackers through technical means to enter the game hall, after randomly selecting some victims, hackers through a series of remote code execution vulnerabilities (RCE), in the victim computer execution malicious script, the user DirectX and sound card driver DLL files replaced with a version with worm virus.
VirusTotal, a Steam security platform, recently detected these worms, which the platform named Generic and BehaviestLike respectively.
VirusTotal said that after a player's computer is infected, if the player continues to go to the multiplayer hall to connect with other players, other players will also be infected by the worm. Techcrunch claims that at least 600 players have been infected with the worm.
VirusTotal, the Techcrunch security platform, said it was not known which hacker launched the attack, and its purpose was unclear. Tom's Hardware claims that only the PC version of Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 is affected by the virus, and Xbox players are not threatened by the virus.
