Activision stepped in to try to take down this “undetectable” aimbot that could theoretically work in any game and on any platform. The latest, a devastating “silent aim” bot that guarantees to hit targets as far away as “if you're on the same continent as your target”. Major competitors such as Call of Duty: Warzone have been inundated by hackers and bots since its release. A bold (and probably untrue) claim, as well as the advertisement that his Battlefield 2042 hack has already been "confirmed" as undetectable.Ĭonsidering that Battlefield 2042 has so far only been played by a severely limited audience during this month's technical testing, it seems unlikely that the cheat has ever been tested and “validated” (unless the hacker is one of the techs).Īs this is a major release in the FPS genre, it's not unlikely that hackers are already keeping an eye on the game and looking for ways to make money from players who don't trust their skills. I played in about 6 servers and every single one of them had at least 1 aimbot. It's like EA disabled anti-cheat or hackers overcame the existing anti-cheat methods.
I am talking about DICE official servers. We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.Hacks were already in the air before the gameĪs identified by the website CharlieIntel, a website began advertising “undetectable” cheats, including aimbots, radar and wallhacks and boasting that its “1,2 million registered users” were never banned from a Battlefield. I started playing bf1 today after more than 6 months and I noticed hackers are in every single server. It seems to have been largely resolved for now, though it's unclear who was behind it. Blizzard admitted on Twitter that the issue, which affected other games including the popular FPS Overwatch, was caused by a DDoS attack. The outage hit European servers first before spreading worldwide. people in shooter games but BATTLEFIELD 3 TURNED OUT TO BE ANOTHER HACKED. The Blizzard attack began less than 24 hours after the release of World of Warcraft: Legion, the sixth expansion to its long-running MMO. Web pages, wikis, and forums are devoted to putting Linux on game consoles. PoodleCorp claims that it has previously launched similar attacks on Grand Theft Auto servers, as well as Blizzard's at the start of August and the Pokémon Go servers back in July. We are responsible for the downtime of & #PoodleCorp We’re working to resolve as fast as possible.Ī group styling itself PoodleCorp on Twitter claimed responsibility for the attack, though its supposed involvement hasn't been independently confirmed. Consoles are a bit harder to cheat on, since they are closed systems and it is very hard to run unsigned code, unless you have a hacked console. EA games, services & support may be impacted. It said: AdvertisementĮA is currently experiencing an outage. EA has yet to confirm the nature of the attack and wasn’t immediately available for comment at time of publication. Players were dealing with hackers during the early September open beta period, which ran for about a week.
The Battlefield 1 beta is time-limited as developer DICE stress-tests the servers. Battlefield 1 isn't out yet, but it already has hackers. It is unclear, however, whether the two attacks are linked.ĮA said it had managed to get everything back up and running early on Thursday morning, after players were locked out for nearly 24 hours-mainly from the Battlefield servers, though other EA gamers also reported outages. Blizzard, meanwhile, experienced difficulties of its own, confirming that it was being targeted by a sustained DDoS attack seemingly timed to coincide with the release of Legion, the World of Warcraft expansion. Players hoping to take part in the online-only beta of EA's forthcoming World War I shooter Battlefield 1 were left frustrated for most of the day after the servers went down, preventing people from logging in. Two of the gaming world's biggest properties battled major outages on Wednesday, as Blizzard's World of Warcraft was slammed by a distributed denial of service attack, while EA's Battlefield 1 also suffered a suspected DDoS thrashing.