EA's Origin Leaves Gamers Vulnerable to Hackers

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Research group ReVuln has found a potentially dangerous URI exploit within EA's Origin client which could leave as many as 40 million gamers vulnerable.

The ReVuln team gave a presentation last week at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam. Apparently, getting someone to click on an "origin://" prefixed link is all it takes, as the Origin client then downloads a dynamic link library file to the victim's computer. The ReVuln team has also released a paper, detailing the exploit, which mentions a similar vulnerability discovered in Valve's Steam platform last year.

Speaking to Ars Technica, Electronic Arts says the company is aware of the issue, and seems to be addressing the problem in some manner.

"Our team is constantly investigating hypotheticals like this one as we continually update our security infrastructure", said an EA spokesperson.

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Source: http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/03/19/eas-origin-has-an-exploit-leaving-gamers-vulnerable-to-hackers

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CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

Im pretty sure this has been fixed a few days ago.

CearnsyPosted:

Woobie EA is going down the dumper as of late, hopefully they turn there stuff around.


Couldn't agree more just letting everything slip

DLTPosted:

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Mitzz fifa 13 has the most hackers tbh!


No it has the most scammers.


i got hacked on fifa, luckily i got my coins back though.


Never experienced a hacker on fifa tbh.


That's not hacking, that's called scamming. Nobody's been hacked from Fifa.


I wouldn't say no-one has been hacked. I'm certain someone out there has been genuinely hacked, well I say hacked I mean someone guessed their details. But most people enter their details on phishing sites then say they have been hacked.


The word jacking means like coding and stuff like that on guessing someone's details :facepalm:


I thought jacking was when they convince someone from the company of the account they are trying to steal to give them the details of an account.

MTVPosted:

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Mitzz fifa 13 has the most hackers tbh!


No it has the most scammers.


i got hacked on fifa, luckily i got my coins back though.


Never experienced a hacker on fifa tbh.


That's not hacking, that's called scamming. Nobody's been hacked from Fifa.


I wouldn't say no-one has been hacked. I'm certain someone out there has been genuinely hacked, well I say hacked I mean someone guessed their details. But most people enter their details on phishing sites then say they have been hacked.


The word jacking means like coding and stuff like that on guessing someone's details :facepalm:

DLTPosted:

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Mitzz fifa 13 has the most hackers tbh!


No it has the most scammers.


i got hacked on fifa, luckily i got my coins back though.


Never experienced a hacker on fifa tbh.


That's not hacking, that's called scamming. Nobody's been hacked from Fifa.


I wouldn't say no-one has been hacked. I'm certain someone out there has been genuinely hacked, well I say hacked I mean someone guessed their details. But most people enter their details on phishing sites then say they have been hacked.

Third_EyePosted:

I haven't played BF3 in ages and just when I get the idea of doing so, I hear something bad about origin. Oh well, no one gonna be sendin' me origin:// links so who cares!

CearnsyPosted:

ever Hackers will always bee around as long as gaming is around.


That is true hacks can be fun but at times it can be annoying

U_UPosted:

this has always had problems though

EverPosted:

Hackers will always bee around as long as gaming is around.

JakesLobbies-Posted:

DSR Thank god they caught this before it was released


I agree


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