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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

cyberinsider.com Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

Rockstar Games' servers have been under fire from DDoS attacks causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online.

Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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I’m on the side of the attackers on this one. BattleEye is trash.
- How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone's hardware for the lawls.
  
  Something along those lines already happened..
  
  https://www.pcgamer.com/ransomware-abuses-genshin-impacts-kernel-mode-anti-cheat-to-bypass-antivirus-protection/
  
  Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don't have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.
Good shit. Privacy and Security cannot be a casualty of cheat prevention.
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