Vulnerability Reported in Dark Souls 3

According to Dexerto, a dangerous remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability found in Dark Souls 3 allows a malicious actor to access your computer. to take control why could it be. This risk, which only applies to online players, could potentially affect Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2 and the upcoming Elden Ring as well.

According to a post on R/darksouls3 on Reddit, only 4 people currently know how the RCE hack works. Two of these four are the developers of Blue Sentinel, a community-created anti-cheat mod for Dark Souls 3; the other two to the occurrence of the event helping persons are reported.

Hacker hacked publishers to draw attention to vulnerability

This vulnerability was first discovered while The__Grim__Sleeper was streaming online on Twitch. The__Grim__Sleeper, whose game crashed at the end of the broadcast; How the robotic voice of Microsoft’s text-to-speech generator suddenly plays games starting to criticize was surprised at what happened. Later, when Microsoft Powershell opened on its own, it was discovered that a hacker had used the program to run a script that triggered the text-to-speech feature.

However, this was probably not a malicious hacker. According to a screenshot from SpeedSouls’ Discord, the “hacker” was aware of the vulnerability and tried to contact FromSoftware, the developer of Dark Souls, about the issue. However, these efforts to be ignored Because of this, the hacker later started using the method of hacking publishers to draw attention to this problem.

However, if a malicious actor had discovered this problem first, the result would be much worse. heavy it could be. As Kaspersky stated, one of the most dangerous security vulnerabilities is RCE; hackers run malicious code on their victims’ computers, causing irreparable damage and potentially sensitive information to steal allows.

For now, the most logical thing to do for your and your computer’s safety is to leave Dark Souls for a while until an official fix is ​​released. avoid looks like.