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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BruPosted:

Thrift-Shop Large Game Clients need an entirely new safety design. Steam has been hacked, and so has Origin. Not good.


Yes they do and it's not good in the slightest

CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

It sucks hackers got to Origin. They need better security

FuturaPosted:

agreed i would like to feel safe

BowChickaWowWowPosted:

Vivador Well, they should fix that, no gamer wants to be vulnerable.


i agree this needs to be sorted

junoPosted:

Well, they should fix that, no gamer wants to be vulnerable.

SolvePosted:

Undisclosed
Evol
Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .


What is connected to ms?
Do you think Microsoft is sabotaging its own gamers? Lol


Lol, he might think that :P

SolvePosted:

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Maya
Ozar Guys this problem is fixed now


Good.


This is good to hear as this would of been a huge problem


Phew that's good to hear.

CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

This has been fixed for about a week now.

Soldier_Posted:

ever
Ozar Guys this problem is fixed now


Thank goodness its fixed! Haha


Yeah, my cousin was mad, he thought they got his info lmao

Soldier_Posted:

M60
Evol
Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .


EA is not linked to MS so MS is fine


Yeah, i have no idea how this could be connected to MS.


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