‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take Over a PC With a Steam Invite

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Hackers could take control of victims' computers just by tricking them into clicking on a Steam invite to play Counter Strike: Global Offensive, according to a bug report seen by Motherboard. 

A bug in the game engine used in Counter Strike: Global Offensive could be exploited by hackers to take full control of a target's machine. A security researcher alerted Valve about the bug in June of 2019. Valve is the maker of Source Engine, which is used by CS:GO, Team Fortress 2, and several other games.
 

The researcher, who goes by the name Florian, said that while that the bug has been fixed in some games that use the Source engine, it is still present in CS:GO, and he demonstrated it in a call with Motherboard.

 

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgej/counter-strike-bug-allows-hackers-to-take-over-a-pc-with-a-steam-invite