Game News Dark Souls: A major security breach identified, players worried about Elden Ring
There is currently a feeling of déjà vu that reigns among Dark Souls players. For the past few days, information has been circulating on social networks and forums, indicating that a major security breach had been identified.
Several years ago, From Software’s games had been exposed to similar problems due to a flaw in the netcode of Dark Souls games, which allowed files to be deleted when exchanging objects in multiplayer.
A new major flaw flushed out, From Software reacts
Recently, a new flaw has been identified on the PC versions of Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II Dark Souls III, and it features a major risk for those who play while connected to the servers. This concern, which would have been brought to light by the twittos @Skelemann according to PC Gamer, would possibly allow malicious people to get their hands on the players’ personal data, but also to install malicious software on the PCs of the victims, to see to block them completely or to take control of them.
On PC, there is a serious flaw that affects Dark Souls 3 and can cause irreversible damage to your computer.
The case quickly made its way on social networks, then on the forums dedicated to the game, and mentioned by the official moderation team. A member of Reddit, named Jonientz, indicates that a hacker designed a hack, then contacted From Software to warn them. The latter would have received no response, and would have decided to use it on some streamer, without integrating anything malicious, in order to capture attention. A successful operation, since it was not necessary to wait only a few hours for From Software to react.
While waiting to find a solution, Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III PvP servers have been disabled. At the same time, developers of the Blue Sentinel mod, which helps fight against cheating and malicious acts of hacking, very quickly updated the program to protect players. However, the presence of such a flaw in the files of three different games is of great concern to PC gamers waiting Elden Ring on a firm footing. The title should indeed appear February 25, which leaves the developers little time to correct the problem with the Dark Souls license, and to verify that the flaw is not present in the netcode of their new production.
Through MalloDelic, Journalist jeuxvideo.com
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