The one that got involved during the North American finals of the Apex Legends Global Series Has no sense. Although it is still not known what the origin is or how they managed to do it, a group of hackers (according to the first investigations, as reported by PCGamer) started installing and running hacks remotely on the computers of the professionals who were competing at that time.
So, suddenly, there were players who could suddenly see everyone, even through walls, and others in which a aimbot. And no, it was not a matter of the pros who were competing at that time, since they even went off the map when they realized the situation. It was an external group that apparently took advantage of a vulnerability in the system easy anti-cheat from Apex Legends to load these hacks so traces on the computers of the participants.
Apex Legends and the problems hackers
Right off the bat, the tournament continued, but seeing that things were getting worse, the organization decided to postpone the tournament. Hours later, Anti-Cheat Police Department volunteer groupexplained that someone was abusing the code remotely, although they did not know if it was through the game or through the system itself anti cheat.
The worst part is that if they have been able to do this, they can do almost anything with your computer remotely. Inclusive, They can even install the players ransomware to block their entire PC. Without a doubt, it is very bad news, both for the professionals affected and for the competition. And if this expands to the full game, Apex Legends, it could be a real tragedy.
Easy-Anti Cheat, the company behind the anti-cheat system, has issued a statement in this regard in which they affirm that they have not suffered any vulnerability in their systems, so the attack would not have been carried out from their systems. Despite this, they continue investigating. And so you can see how important it is, before this tweet, the company had not issued any statement since 2019. The case is serious and they know it.
