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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HallPosted:

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


Hopefully, I feel like they've always been in the dumper..

HallPosted:

Poi_Jr Origin should have this fix really soon.


I'm sure they will, give it a day or so.

CygnetPosted:

Axe Wow, EA has really been going down hill in the past few weeks. I wonder how many more problems EA will have in the future, cause right now; this is just crazy.


yeah wth is going on with them? My sister is having problems with her Sim's and shes complaining to me about it, come on Origin get your sh*t together! lol

CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

Origin should have this fix really soon.

WoobiePosted:

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

ToesPosted:

-Refocus I hate people who do stupid stuff like this

No reason to hate them, theyre the ones going to end up in the bad spot eventually.

-RefocusPosted:

I hate people who do stupid stuff like this

AxePosted:

Wow, EA has really been going down hill in the past few weeks. I wonder how many more problems EA will have in the future, cause right now; this is just crazy.

ToesPosted:

EMT
-Pinkie_Pie-
Soulful
-RageQuit- I just don't get why hackers go so far to ruin someone's gaming experience


They get something out of it, that's why they do it.

Not sure if it's for money, people's information, things like that I'm sure.


exactly.. they only do it to get something for it.. its dumb if you ask me..


Maybe they had fun modifying the game


Im sure they had fun, just not fun in jail :O

MTVPosted:

-Pinkie_Pie-
Soulful
-RageQuit- I just don't get why hackers go so far to ruin someone's gaming experience


They get something out of it, that's why they do it.

Not sure if it's for money, people's information, things like that I'm sure.


exactly.. they only do it to get something for it.. its dumb if you ask me..


Maybe they had fun modifying the game


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