Nasty Dark Souls exploit lets hackers take control of your PC

Someone has discovered a hacking exploit in Dark Souls 3 and has given a public demo to alert FromSoftware.

FromSoftware has announced that it’s had to temporarily shut down the multiplayer servers for several Dark Souls games on PC. So far it’s not given an exact reason, only saying it’s to ‘allow the team to investigate recent reports of an issue with online services.’

Those issues may have to do with an exploit that could theoretically let someone hack another person’s PC and take direct control of it. This would allow the hacker to brick the PC, steal log-in details, and install malware.

The good news is that the only people who know of this exploit have no intention of using it and contacted FromSoftware to alert them, although the studio seemingly ignored their warnings.

In a message posted to the Discord server of the speedrunning community SpeedSouls, a user explains that the person who discovered the exploit proceeded to demonstrate it live on Twitch in a harmless manner, in order to attract FromSoftware’s attention.

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