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World of Warcraft cities hacked
joiwind:
This really made me laugh : World of Warcraft cities hacked - and sacked and burned !
"Hackers have massacred all the virtual characters in some of online adventure game World of Warcraft's major cities."
NB : I don't play this game ...
Renegade:
(I don't play Warcrack either.)
It's very funny and unfunny at the same time.
f0dder:
Noticed this a bit earlier today, did a bit of investigation.
Apparently the exploit had been used by a group of three WoW exploit writers for a while, mainly to do runs of the Baradin Hold instance - combined with a teleport hack, they could clear out the instance in no time, earning a lot of gold. Finally blizzard caught wind of it, banned one of the guys, and then the rest got pissed off, shared the exploit with a few others, and set off to disrupt the major cities of several servers.
Some weeks earlier, one of those guys had found a way to *crash* entire servers, afaik by sending some malformed packets.
A couple of references:
Baradin Hold Instakill
Server crash exploit
SeraphimLabs:
Freaking packet editors!
This was a problem way back in Vanilla, and I honestly can't believe that they didn't fix it back then. I quit WoW back in patch 1.14 Vanilla over a hack like this and Blizzard's inability to fix it in a timely manner.
On top of that, other MMORPGs are being plauged by hacks of similar nature.
joiwind:
plauged - I love that word.
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