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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CearnsyPosted:

Evol
Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .


EA is not linked to MS so MS is fine

EverPosted:

Ozar Guys this problem is fixed now


Thank goodness its fixed! Haha

ToesPosted:

Maya
Undisclosed
Evol
Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .


What is connected to ms?
Do you think Microsoft is sabotaging its own gamers? Lol


Lmao i like the way you put that.


Im sure microsoft wouldnt do that lol...

ToesPosted:

Maya
Drumstep
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


where did you get ms from?

I Hvae no idea where he got that from lmao


Microsoft really has nothing to do with EA.

Soldier_Posted:

Drumstep
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


where did you get ms from?

I Hvae no idea where he got that from lmao

Soldier_Posted:

Undisclosed
Evol
Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .


What is connected to ms?
Do you think Microsoft is sabotaging its own gamers? Lol


Lmao i like the way you put that.

undisclosedPosted:

Evol
Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .


What is connected to ms?
Do you think Microsoft is sabotaging its own gamers? Lol

neboPosted:

Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


where did you get ms from?

MultitaskPosted:

Maya
Evol
Moiros If this applies to Xbox too there might be a problem with Microsoft as well.


i don't think it is with MS
but its all good now its been fixed.


I think MS is fine.


yea some one said this is connected to MS /: .

Soldier_Posted:

Undisclosed Well thanks EA. (I hope you know I'm being sarcastic)


Yes i do lmao


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