Activision discovers destructive malware hidden in Warzone hacks ActivisionActivision has revealed a piece of malware circulating right now, which the publisher says was \u201cmasquerading\u201d as Warzone cheating software, which had the ability to install a \u201cmore destructive\u201d program without the user knowing it. At this point, it\u2019s abundantly clear how connected Warzone and hackers\/cheaters are. Pretty much ever since the game launched, hackers and cheaters have been extremely prevalent in the first-person battle royale, primarily on PC. While these hacks generally give people who use them unfair advantages like aimbots, it now seems like at least one cheat that\u2019s been circulating includes another feature: full-blown malware. According to a brand-new report by Activision, as originally reported by VICE, a \u201ccheat\u201d has been circulating through the PC community right now, which actually includes a piece of malware called a \u201cdropper.\u201d While this phishing software, which is called \u201cCOD Dropper v0.1\u201c, doesn\u2019t actually include anything destructive in-and-of itself, it installs other malware, which does the main damage. The types of software that the dropper in question can install is \u201ccustomizable\u201d according to the report but one specific example Activision uses is \u201ccredential stealing malware.\u201d According to the report by Activision, this cheat has been around since at least April 2020, only a month after the game was originally released to the world, and has been spreading through the community ever since. This means that it\u2019s been spreading for around a full year, as of March 2021. The report also says that this dropper has actually been advertised and that there are multiple YouTube videos online showing how one can install it, just lending more evidence to the fact that it\u2019s been circulating for a while. Currently, it\u2019s unknown the current state of the hack itself. Activision\u2019s report says the cheat was most recently posted on a forum at the beginning of March 2021 so it sounds like it\u2019s still around to some extent. Here\u2019s hoping that it\u2019s not as widely as distributed as it was before and that there\u2019s an easy solution for those who already have it installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activision discovers destructive malware hidden in Warzone hacks ActivisionActivision has revealed a piece of malware circulating right now, which the publisher says was \u201cmasquerading\u201d as Warzone cheating software, which had the ability to install a \u201cmore destructive\u201d program without the user knowing it. At this point, it\u2019s abundantly clear how connected Warzone and hackers\/cheaters are. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}