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Title: Recent wide scale hacks Post by: Outlawedprod on October 09, 2012, 05:56:55 AM Apparently the guys behind the insta-kill exploit advertise their WoW exploit application on ownedcore. Rumor is they were also behind the recent server crashes a few weeks back when they released a packet exploit app that could forcibly disconnect all players.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/World-ofWarcraft-Aura-of-Gold-MMORPG-Insta-kill-exploit,18219.html Two of the better videos of the recent hack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_vCFKuXrQo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3S7FiGldhg They have now received press on major news sites like the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19869466 Think this will embolden them further or will Blizzard put the kibosh on? Title: Re: Recent wide scale hacks Post by: Zetor on October 09, 2012, 06:01:44 AM MMO companies still don't give too much of a crap about app security.
In other news, the sky is blue. :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Recent wide scale hacks Post by: luckton on October 09, 2012, 06:16:46 AM Again, this doesn't seem very earth-shattering to me. Until they start doing some real bullshit (item/character deletion, gold theft, wipe out my rep with factions, etc), randomly killing players that get killed all the time in PvE/PvP is blah. I do think that it's impressive with what they did, and I'm sure Bliz is taking the proper actions to both fix the exploits and track down who did them. But I'm not seeing the newsworthy-ness of this, which is the course that everyone should be taking with these kinds of things. Hackers like this do it for the attention and prestige, and that's exactly what they're getting right now.
Title: Re: Recent wide scale hacks Post by: Setanta on October 10, 2012, 12:27:57 AM The ZG plague of vanilla WoW was cooler
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