- Oct 23, 2012
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Electronic Arts, one of the largest game publishers, has a lot of problems these days. First there was the Sim City fiasco where the company decided that it is more important to fight piracy and push micro-transactions than to provide users with a game that they can actually play. Yesterday company CEO John Riccitello announced that he would step down and while that is not necessarily related to Sim City or other issues the company is currently facing, it is a clear sign that things look dire for EA right now.
If that was not bad enough, it became know today that the company's digital distribution and game management platform Origin is vulnerable to remote code execution attacks. Security research company [Re]Vuln released a paper and demonstration video that explains in detail how Origin users may be attacked.
The basic idea behind the attack is the following. Origin, much like Steam, uses a protocol - origin:// - to launch games on local systems. These links can be shortcuts on the local system or displayed on websites on the Internet. Attackers can make use of that by manipulating the links to load remote payloads on local systems.[...]
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If that was not bad enough, it became know today that the company's digital distribution and game management platform Origin is vulnerable to remote code execution attacks. Security research company [Re]Vuln released a paper and demonstration video that explains in detail how Origin users may be attacked.
The basic idea behind the attack is the following. Origin, much like Steam, uses a protocol - origin:// - to launch games on local systems. These links can be shortcuts on the local system or displayed on websites on the Internet. Attackers can make use of that by manipulating the links to load remote payloads on local systems.[...]
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