Easy Anti-Cheat exploit means Hackers can inject cheats into your games.

[MissChief]

https://x.com/lookatmymeat1/status/1769559765561033014?s=61&t=VCe3B4L_lImms-u99NPCcQ Lists every game, from their own website. This now means no player in any of those games is safe from being given hacks and potentially getting banned.

This comes after a Hacker known as Destroyer2009 injected a wall hack into a Pro players game live during the Apex Legends Global Series and then also granted aimbot to another player, ImperialHal, a multiple ALGS champion who’s account was subsequently banned for cheating. EA have since postponed the rest of the ALGS due to competitive integrity concerns.

If your game uses EAC then your account is at risk. It's a BIG list, EAC is probably the most widely used anti-cheat client out there.

Figured this could use its own thread.

 

[Kurgen]

I play Hell Let Loose and Chivlary II most nights

 

[MissChief]

The plot thickens. Easy anticheat revive their Twitter account with the first post in five years saying it’s not them: https://x.com/teddyeac/status/1769725032047972566?s=61&t=VCe3B4L_lImms-u99NPCcQ

 

[Frenzy]

So sad

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

This is insane. I would be curious how this is even possible.

 

[~>Dg<~]

some people are saying the apex player in the tourne just had cheats in the first place .

 

[VincentHanna]

Isn't that actually more likely? His own system was hacked and they activated something on his end?

 

[Felon]

imagine playing Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, and having to use cheats.

 

[Frenzy]

Saw some comments saying the source engine has had similar issues in the past so it could be that?

 

[dessimpson]

Has it actually been proven it's Easy Anti Cheat?

 

[Frenzy]

No

 

[ic1male]

Does it persist across sessions? So if you quit the game and then relaunch it, you will be back to normal?

 

[Drollic]

Rebrand to Easy Cheat just for a few lols.

 

[ColdAsIce]

I think Vince is on the money. Most likely a compromised system on some top streamers and the exploit allows code to be run remotely. Otherwise they should have given every player aimbot and no walls and let chaos take place.

 

[randal]

Yep, I read it was Remote Code Execution via a vulnerability in EAC which has kernel level hooks into the OS.

Bring back dedicated servers, active admins and slapping people with a wet fish.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Isn't that actually more likely? His own system was hacked and they activated something on his end?

Considering that they are trying to sell their cheat software it would be a bad business move to burn one of your existing customers.

 

[Rroff]

Isn't that actually more likely? His own system was hacked and they activated something on his end?

There have been instances in the past where people have found they can trigger anti-cheat on someone's system by putting certain character strings into things like IRC and Discord, Steam Chat, etc. most modern anti-cheat has systems in place to avoid being falsely triggered by that but possible someone has found a new one.

It may also be possible in isolated cases, though need a massive amount of knowledge and effort, to hijack anti-cheat software which phones home for updates, etc. if someone can insert themselves as a middleman on someone's connection i.e. a compromised VPN, etc.

 

[ColdAsIce]

If the anti cheat was compromised and this person / team had access to just remote code to anyone using the software. They would have to be seriously ******** to expose themselves trolling 1 / 2 people in a crappy tournament. They would have had access to 100s of thousands of systems ripe for the taking with keyloggers installed to gain access to finances.