I find it pretty awesome that instead of doing Remote Code Execution to fuck up someone’s life, they instead exploited it in live broadcast which shows the world how terrible these rootkits that go by the name of “anti cheat” are.
On Sunday, two competitive esports players appeared to get hacked during a live streamed game, prompting the organizers to postpone the tournament.
Before that, for a split moment, a window appears on their screen, with what looks like a menu for a tool to enable cheats, titled “TSM HALAL HOOK.”
At the same time, the game’s chatbot shows a message that appears to come from the hackers: “Apex hacking global series, by Destroyer2009 &R4andom.”
In the other match, something similar happens to another competitive Apex Legends player, ImperialHal, who also posted the sequence on their X account.
“Due to the competitive integrity of this series being compromised, we have made the decision to postpone the [North America] finals at this time.
We will continue to work closely with our partners for any follow up support needed,” the official Easy Anti-Cheat account posted on X.
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I find it pretty awesome that instead of doing Remote Code Execution to fuck up someone’s life, they instead exploited it in live broadcast which shows the world how terrible these rootkits that go by the name of “anti cheat” are.
Womp fucking womp (I agree with you completely)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Sunday, two competitive esports players appeared to get hacked during a live streamed game, prompting the organizers to postpone the tournament.
Before that, for a split moment, a window appears on their screen, with what looks like a menu for a tool to enable cheats, titled “TSM HALAL HOOK.”
At the same time, the game’s chatbot shows a message that appears to come from the hackers: “Apex hacking global series, by Destroyer2009 &R4andom.”
In the other match, something similar happens to another competitive Apex Legends player, ImperialHal, who also posted the sequence on their X account.
“Due to the competitive integrity of this series being compromised, we have made the decision to postpone the [North America] finals at this time.
We will continue to work closely with our partners for any follow up support needed,” the official Easy Anti-Cheat account posted on X.
The original article contains 470 words, the summary contains 144 words. Saved 69%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!