The Activision Giants occupied Call of Duty: Wwii because of hackers that exploit a defect in a particular PC version of the game, which has led to several players to get their Hacked computers, Techcrunch has learned.
Last week, Activision announced That was offline the Microsoft Store version of Call of Duty: Wwii, 2017 First Person Shooter, as the company was investigating “reports of an issue”, without specifying what was the matter. The company had just started this game version, also available on Game Pass, a subscription service that provides access to various games for a monthly pay.
A person with knowledge of Activision’s answer told TechCrunch that the company took the game offline due to hacks and while working to correct the matter. TechCrunch does not call the person as it is not authorized to speak to the press.
Several video game news shops referred to the story and noted that several players complained on social media that they were tired during the game. So far, there has been no confirmed link between the two events.
“The game is not safe to play on the computer right now, there is a RCE exploitation,” writes one player in Reddit last week, referring to a type of error known as a remote code execution, which allows hackers to plant malicious software capable of controlling the device.
The game for Microsoft Store and Game Pass stays down at the time of publication, per ACTIVISION Page.
Activision did not respond to multiple requests for comments.
The publisher of the game only occupied the Microsoft Store and Game Pass of Call of Duty: Wwii because they were different versions of the game than listed on Steam and contained an old defect that had been corrected in other versions of the game, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.
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For the last two years, Activision had to deal with many hacking incidents. In November 2024, a hacker found a defect in the Call of Duty anti-equipment system that allowed them to ban thousands of legal players. Earlier in the year, the company explored a hacking campaign aimed at players with Infostealer Malware, a kind of malicious software designed to steal a victim’s passwords. In 2023, the hackers used a self-consider malicious software-a computer worm-to hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players, thanks to a non-old bug of the year in the game.
Recently, some video game companies have boosted their teams in cyberspace as well as their against equipment. However, Activision has passed several rounds of redundancies In recent years, some of which have directly influenced cyber security teams.
