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#Counter strike bug allows hackers to pro
#Counter strike bug allows hackers to code

We have no idea if hackers are currently using this Source Engine exploit to great effect, or how difficult this would be to accomplish.

#Counter strike bug allows hackers to pro

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Maybe, just maybe, Valve should move CS:GO, alongside their other titles, over to Source 2 as they did with Dota 2. However, he feels as if the bug will never get fixed unless this issue is addressed publically. That being said, I think it is reasonable to say that Valve had plenty of time to fix this issue."įlorian continued by saying he is not trying to harm anyone, and he just wants to see this bug getting fixed. "I submitted the bug at H1 roughly 2 years ago and it got verified/triaged after a couple of months. First of all, I decided not to put people at risk by disclosing technical details before this gets fixed. Recently, Florian took to Twitter to explain: "I believe some things need to be clarified regarding my source engine exploit.

Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast, CYBER.This bug in Valve's Source engine apparently works 80% of the time, which is extremely high. Hackers have found a new exploit in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that could allow a hacker to take control of your computer if you click on a Steam invite to play the popular. In 2019, Valve banned a security researcher from its bug bounty program, prompting him to publish the exploit publicly. In 2018, Motherboard reported that a security researcher found a bug in Steam that allowed hackers to take over victims' computers-a bug that had been present for 10 years. This is not the first time Valve has been slow to respond and fix reported vulnerabilities.

"They truly don't care about the security and integrity of their games." Our experience has always been slow response times, with little to no patches being pushed to production," he told Motherboard in an online chat.

"Valve's response has been a complete disappointment right from the start. On Twitter, Carl Schou, the founder of Secret Club, a not-for-profit group of security researchers, highlighted two other vulnerabilities that he said were reported to Valve by members of his group. "When we posted that this exploit affects every source engine game one should understand this as 'every game might theoretically be affected as it is a bug in the engine and not something game specific.'" "We can't say in how many games it used to work and if/when things got patched," Florian said. The good news is that Valve appears to have patched the bug in other games other than CS:GO.

"Once you infected somebody this person can be weaponized in order to infect their friends and so on," Florian said. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 9, lorenzofb on Wickr, OTR chat at or email to him, hackers could use this bug and make it automatically spread, almost as a worm. Another researcher also found the same bug months after Florian reported it, and their report was merged with the original one.ĭo you reverse engineer and research vulnerabilities in video games? Or do you work on anti-cheat engines? We’d love to hear from you.

#Counter strike bug allows hackers to code

"I am honestly very disappointed because they straight up ignored me most of the time," Florian said in an online chat.Ī Valve spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.įlorian said that he was able to code an exploit to take advantage of the bug that works 80 percent of the time, according to his estimate. Valve admitted that it was being slow to respond, even though it classified the bug as "critical" in the thread with the researchers, which Motherboard reviewed. Florian's correspondence with Valve occurred on HackerOne, the bug bounty platform used by the company to get reports about vulnerabilities.