Apparently there is a risk playing any game with EAC right now

[Kimosamie<sAp.]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/battle-royale/apex-legends-streamers-warned-to-perform-a-clean-os-reinstall-as-soon-as-possible-after-hacks-during-na-finals-match/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

A recent Apex Legends event was hacked. People were able to install hacks, aimbots, and more on player's rigs because of an exploit with EAC. EA had to issue a statement telling people to preform a clean OS reinstall.

If this is an EAC exploit then playing the Finals could put you at risk too. Be careful out there and try to play on a machine that's not your main machine, or move all personal information off of a machine that has EAC on it.

[redk]

It's not really confirmed it's an exploit in EAC. It's more than likely an exploit in the Source engine itself rather than in Easy Anti-Cheat.

Some dude on X saying "It might be EAC!" isn't really confirmation of anything. If anything, it's more likely the same RCE exploits that were used against CS:GO players 2 years ago and that weren't patched in Apex's modified Source Engine.

[ele]

Nobody has played Apex Legends more than once so this sounds like fake news.

[DanDudeVR]

It's NOT EAC. Players had mods installed that had a back door. They were exploited during the game after the hacker discovered their back door. I checked their video and its mod did have a back door the hacker gained access to.

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It's a Source engine thing, it is perfectly fine to play The Finals as of now.

[Trinity]

is this fixed yet

[Trinity]

Originally posted by DanDudeVR:

It's NOT EAC. Players had mods installed that had a back door. They were exploited during the game after the hacker discovered their back door. I checked their video and its mod did have a back door the hacker gained access to.

so according to you, it wasn't the anti cheat, but a mod someone had that someone else used to bypass the anticheat while infecting others

[Jade]

Originally posted by Trinity:

Originally posted by DanDudeVR:

It's NOT EAC. Players had mods installed that had a back door. They were exploited during the game after the hacker discovered their back door. I checked their video and its mod did have a back door the hacker gained access to.

so according to you, it wasn't the anti cheat, but a mod someone had that someone else used to bypass the anticheat while infecting others

EAC themselves said they looked into it and confirmed it wasn't something on their side
https://twitter.com/TeddyEAC/status/1769725032047972566

keep in mind Apex is based off of the Source Engine, an engine from 2004 (technically even older) so yes not really any surprise that some major exploits remain.

[Trinity]

yeah especially with how easy it is to just modify ♥♥♥♥ without anyone knowing

[Trinity]

thanks for the information