2024-03-19 04:13:39
News that shocked the global e-sports circle occurred at the ALGS 2024 North American regional finals held yesterday (19th). During the live broadcast, two consecutive players were “forced to turn on cheats”, causing the entire schedule to be interrupted and postponed. Although EA has not yet officially explained , but public opinion pointed to possible vulnerabilities in the anti-cheat software “Easy Anit-Cheat” of “Apex Legends”, and EAC refuted this.
On the day of the ALGS 2024 North American Spilt 1 regional finals, first Genburten, a player from the DarkZero team, was suddenly forced to activate a perspective plug-in, and then the next victim was TSM’s Imperial Hal, who was forced to activate a self-aim plug-in. Two incidents in succession led EA to announce the postponement of the game. The suspected hacker in this incident seems to be “Destroyer2009”, a notorious cheating player in the overseas community.
Later, an anti-cheat volunteer account calling itself “Anti-Cheat Police Department” publicly spoke out. They stated that “Apex Legends” was attacked by the “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability.
Anti-Cheat PD stated that they are not sure whether the game itself or the EAC anti-cheat software has an RCE vulnerability, but they believe that games using EAC or EA games are risky, and recommend that players protect their computers.
Some more information on the cheat that was injected into the streamers PC
clips: https://t.co/mWpTm6UmxY pic.twitter.com/pTtIZjUmX7
— Anti-Cheat Police Department 🕵️ (@AntiCheatPD) March 18, 2024
Although the overseas community cannot confirm whether Anti-Cheat PD’s statement is true, the revelation of the hacking incident at the ALGS competition has also made the “Apex Legends” player community’s long-standing complaints about EA and Respawn’s ineffective management of cheats come out in one fell swoop. , and the vulnerability claims of Anti-Cheat PD have made EAC anti-cheating software the focus of discussion.
In response to the online accusations, the official X account of EAC Anti-Cheat posted again for the first time in five years, saying, “After our investigation of Easy Anti-Cheat, there have been recent reports of potential RCE issues. At present, we are convinced that EAC has not found any RCE vulnerabilities. ”, and will continue to pay close attention to this matter with our partners to provide support.
We have investigated recent reports of a potential RCE issue within Easy Anti-Cheat. At this time – we are confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploited. We will continue to work closely with our partners for any follow up support needed
— Easy Anti-Cheat (@TeddyEAC) March 18, 2024
Of course, EAC is a well-known anti-cheating tool software on the market. Many famous games such as “Fortnite”, “Lost Ark”, “Battlefield 2042”, “Elden Ring” and other famous games require EAC to be activated to enter the game. Therefore, if there is a loophole, it will be a serious matter.
At the same time, Anti-Cheat PD brought a picture of a suspected conversation with Destroyer2009 along with the public statement. The content asked him whether he used REC to attack, and whether this incident was related to the “R5Reloaded” module software. This module usually It is mainly used to modify the shooting range of “Apex Legends” and add many official features that are not available.
The R5 production team also issued an announcement, clarifying that it had nothing to do with the attack, stating that R5’s own modules are all open source code and can be inspected.
Very important announcement, gamers! pic.twitter.com/BkFkmJYmZn
— R5Reloaded (@R5Reloaded) March 18, 2024
As of now, EA officials are still investigating this incident, and it has not yet been announced when the ALGS schedule will resume after the postponement. In any case, this incident will undoubtedly have an impact on the fairness and security of online competition in the e-sports circle, because hackers Attacks seem to be more difficult to defend against than simple plug-in players.
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