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You might not want to play GTA Online right now due to security vulnerabilitiesPlayers are reporting remote code exploits to Rockstar

Players are reporting remote code exploits to Rockstar

GTA Online ran a St Valentine’s Day event in February 2022.

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“New extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add/remove/modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban/delete,” tweeted Tez2. “Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all!” GTA Online players on the game’ssubredditbegan to call for a mass reporting of the exploits to Rockstar over the weekend. A glance at Rockstar’sSupport siteshows that players are following through with that call.

“The exploit is partial remote code execution,” Tez2 claimed in anothertweet. “Paid mod menus are racing as speak to abuse this to the further extent. This could transform into something much worse to extend beyond a game and affect your PC.” An RCE vulnerability that affected the multiplayer ofDark Souls 3wasdiscoveredlast January, and led to Bandai Namco taking down online services for the entireDark Soulsseries for months.

Playing GTA Online with a firewall in place, such as Speyedr’s Guardian, could possibly have prevented dodgy sorts from corrupting your game or hardware. Yet Speyedr has taken Guardian down temporarily in the hope that Rockstar can correct the issue. “Download link is removed until the RCE exploit is fixed,” Speyedr said on the Guardiangitlabpage. “I don’t want beginners using Guardian incorrectly when there’s such a huge risk. Mod menus will exploit the hell out of this. Please just take a break.”

HackerstargetedRockstar in September last year, illegally accessing the company’s network to obtain footage of the in-development next instalment in theGrand Theft Autoseries, GTA 6. More than 80 clips from the game made their way around the Internet following the intrusion onto Rockstar’s network. A teenager from the UK was laterarrestedin connection with the hacking, but pleaded not guilty to a computer misusecharge.

#GTAOnlinePC High Alert⚠️New extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add/remove/modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban/delete.Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all!🚨Thanks to@HarryGotTakenfor notifying.pic.twitter.com/tyh4tCInML— Tez2 (@TezFunz2)January 20, 2023

#GTAOnlinePC High Alert⚠️New extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add/remove/modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban/delete.Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all!🚨Thanks to@HarryGotTakenfor notifying.pic.twitter.com/tyh4tCInML

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