Developed by FromSoftware and released in 2011, it became a phenomenon in a short time with its first game. The Dark Souls series is pretty old these days.It came to the fore with great news.
A very serious vulnerability was discovered in the series published by Namco Bandai, which in itself caused a game genre called souls-like to emerge. According to the latest reports, on the PC platform of the players, until the patch comes that he should not play any Souls game in online mode.
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Hackers can take over computers playing Dark Souls
The game of the Souls series, which was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows platforms in 2016, is in Dark Souls 3. quite a serious was discovered.
It all started with a recent broadcast by The Grim Sleeper, who broadcast while playing the Souls series. Towards the end of the broadcast, the game suddenly crashed and Microsoft’s Text-To-Speech (Text-to-Speech Service) A robotic voice began to speak. This application, which said and criticized how badly the publisher played the game, emerged when Microsoft PowerShell suddenly opened and ran various codes.
The background of this situation is quite interesting: According to a screenshot sent in SpeedSouls, the Discord group of players trying to finish the Souls game fast, the hacker who discovered this vulnerability previously contacted FromSoftware, the producer of the game. When the messages he sent about this vulnerability were ignored, he aimed to attract the attention of the producer by using this vulnerability to sabotage the broadcasts of Twitch publishers.
Vulnerabilities, called RCE, that allow remote hacking of any computer, are named by Kaspersky as one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities. In this sense, until an explanation or a comprehensive patch comes from the producer, any Souls game on the computer, -at least in online mode- It is not recommended to play. It is highly likely that this vulnerability will also exist in Elden Ring, which will be released in the near future.
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