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The hacker, who goes by Vizor, tells TechCrunch that they exploited a bug in the popular game's anti-cheat software for months.

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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 9 points 13 hours ago

Vizor said they could simply send a private message — known as a “whisper” in the game — that included one of these hardcoded strings, such as “Trigger Bot,” and get the player they were messaging banned from the game. 

That is so fucking stupid.

this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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