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Call of Duty: WW2 on PC Game Pass yanked offline amid reports security exploits are leaving players with screens full of smut


Activision has pulled the PC Game Pass version of Call of Duty: WW2 offline while it investigates an unspecified "issue…

An accompanying video showed their gaming session being interrupted by a pop-up text window proclaiming to have "just RCE'd your ass", before it's revealed Wrioh's desktop wallpaper has been changed to an image of a beaming lawyer. In an accompanying message, VX-Underground referenced an "unpatched RCE exploit" and claimed, "Someone is trolling gamers with Notepad pop ups, PC shutdowns, and gay pornography." "The concern in this particular case," they summarised, "is that this means an attacker is capable of deploying information stealer malware, a RAT (remote administration tool), or ransomware.

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