In Los Angeles, the Kirby beast may be rarer than street crime.
On January 22, Twitch anchor The__Grim__Sleeper was invaded by online players while broadcasting Dark Souls 3. It was supposed to be an ordinary online battle, but strangely enough, at the moment of the hack, his computer seemed to be remotely controlled, a strange picture of the entire screen appeared, and an insulting voice began to play. Two minutes later, he cut off the live stream and hurriedly rolled off the line.
Although The__Grim__Sleeper afterwards that everything was normal on his computer, the incident alerted all Dark Souls 3 players. After some investigation, it was found that all the Dark Souls series had REC (Remote Code Execution) vulnerabilities, and hackers could execute arbitrary commands on opponents' computers through in-game online battles, including but not limited to stealing payment information, implanting mining software and other bad behaviors.
And such a serious vulnerability was used as a prank by this hacker, and people can't help but wonder what his purpose is. Subsequently, a Dark Souls 3 mod developer learned the inside story and explained why.
It turned out that the hacker had inadvertently discovered the existence of the vulnerability not long ago, and wrote an email at the first time to give feedback to The Production Company of Dark Souls, FromSoftware. Unfortunately, he didn't receive any response and the game bugs weren't fixed. Now he's trying to use the influence of the big anchor to warn all Dark Soul players in the form of a prank, hoping that someone will fix the loophole before the victims appear.
In fact, the RCE vulnerability in the game was discovered by some players a few months ago. In the domestic "Dark Souls 3" community, there have been a group of people who take pleasure in opening and hanging, and their plug-ins can even forcibly modify the game data of players on the other end of the screen. At that time, some people had already mentioned the RCE vulnerability in Dark Souls 3, but it did not attract attention, until the incident broke out, everyone realized the horror of this vulnerability.
Coincidentally, just a month ago, Minecraft encountered the same RCE vulnerability problem, and hackers only need to send a specific message in the game's online chat to launch an attack on the user who receives this message. At that time, an average of 5,000 victims were born every hour.
This incident also caused a lot of commotion in china
Fortunately, there are no victims in the Dark Souls RCE vulnerability. At present, the official has shut down all the Dark Souls series game servers to start repairs and updates. It is worth mentioning that it has been 4 years since the last "Dark Souls 3" update.
In the past 4 years, the online environment of Dark Souls 3 has become worse and worse, with various cheating methods, bad bugs, and today's RCE vulnerabilities, which have made the game experience of ordinary players difficult.
To this end, Dark Souls players are thinking of a variety of ways. In China, a group of players set up a technical team to try to set up a set of public welfare servers, which are free to all players.
At present, the national service is still in its infancy, but in order to prevent the recurrence of a series of problems such as cheating, the built-in reporting function strives to solve the vicious behavior in the game in the shortest possible time.
I hope that players who still love this game can have a pure online environment.