Players are reporting remote code exploits to Rockstar

Grand Theft Auto Onlineplayers on PC are reporting corrupted accounts and being locked out of their games due to remote code exploits that are being abused by modders. Rockstar-focused Twitter account Tez2highlightedthe issue at the end of last week, before news of the situation spread onto the GTA Onlinesubreddit. Rockstar Support hasn’t officially acknowledged any potential the exploits have to affect GTA Online players and their accounts, although Tez2claimedthat the company were already aware of what was going on.

“New extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add/remove/modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban/delete,” tweeted Tez2. “Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all!” GTA Online players on the game’ssubredditbegan to call for a mass reporting of the exploits to Rockstar over the weekend. A glance at Rockstar’sSupport siteshows that players are following through with that call.

“The exploit is partial remote code execution,” Tez2 claimed in anothertweet. “Paid mod menus are racing as speak to abuse this to the further extent. This could transform into something much worse to extend beyond a game and affect your PC.” An RCE vulnerability that affected the multiplayer ofDark Souls 3wasdiscoveredlast January, and led to Bandai Namco taking down online services for the entireDark Soulsseries for months.

Playing GTA Online with a firewall in place, such as Speyedr’s Guardian, could possibly have prevented dodgy sorts from corrupting your game or hardware. Yet Speyedr has taken Guardian down temporarily in the hope that Rockstar can correct the issue. “Download link is removed until the RCE exploit is fixed,” Speyedr said on the Guardiangitlabpage. “I don’t want beginners using Guardian incorrectly when there’s such a huge risk. Mod menus will exploit the hell out of this. Please just take a break.”

HackerstargetedRockstar in September last year, illegally accessing the company’s network to obtain footage of the in-development next instalment in theGrand Theft Autoseries, GTA 6. More than 80 clips from the game made their way around the Internet following the intrusion onto Rockstar’s network. A teenager from the UK was laterarrestedin connection with the hacking, but pleaded not guilty to a computer misusecharge.

#GTAOnlinePC High Alert⚠️New extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add/remove/modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban/delete.Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all!🚨Thanks to@HarryGotTakenfor notifying.pic.twitter.com/tyh4tCInML

GTA Online is included with GTA V onSteamand theEpic Games Store. Just be careful if you’re heading out onto the streets of Los Santos anytime soon.