"Serious Security Flaw in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - How to Protect Your PC"

2023-05-31 11:10:55

A major security flaw has been reported in the 2020 main title Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (CoD: BOCW), published by Activision and developed by Treyarch.

The problem this time is that there is a danger that a player in the same lobby can take the IP address and crash the PC by someone else’s hands, so individual players are required to be careful.

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Call of Duty: BOCW’s Security Flaws

CharlieIntelThe content of this trouble reported on Twitter is as follows.

Currently, all platforms of “CoD: BOCW” have individualsAccess player IP addresses or crash gamesglitches exist that cause So far Call of Duty: MWll and Warzone 2.0 have shown no indication of this.

Activision has not addressed this issue and has not claimed to be aware of it.until it’s fixedAvoid touching CoD: BOCWis bestIt seems.

to DEXERTOAccording to this, this is “CoD: BOCW”players in the same lobbyA glitch that can occur against

Knowing your IP address does not necessarily lead to identification of individuals or danger to your life. Even so, there are various risks such as DDoS attacks on your own machine and being used for crimes by impersonating yourself, so it seems necessary to be careful.

Frequent troubles in old CoD series

The latest work such as Warzone seems to be safe, but in any case I would like to wait for the official announcement

Fortunately, such cases have not yet been confirmed in the current works “CoD: MWll” and “Warzone 2.0”, but even in other older titles such as “CoD: BO3” and “CoD: BO4” A similar phenomenon is occurringI have a report.Considering the fact that these have already been updated, it seems necessary to be vigilant as well.

Regarding the old CoD series, there have been recent events that have disturbed the community, such as mods by volunteer communities and the termination of their own servers by Activision.

Let’s hope that Activision will show us a move to calm down the people of the community, in order to play the old series that are normally sold on Steam etc. now with peace of mind.

At the time of writing the article, no official sources, including Activision, have commented on this matter, but we will continue to check the development side and the community, and the transmission from both sides, and deliver the follow-up report.