on tuesday, Microsoft patched A historically record number of security bugs occurred in its product line, due to the company’s use of AI to help it and external researchers find bugs.
amid certain weaknesses there was one For a remastered version of the classic 25-year-old war strategy video game Age of Empires II. According to security researchers, this flaw allowed hackers to take over a victim’s computer by sending a custom malicious game invitation.
a video Posted on x Shows how this flaw can be exploited by hackers.
according to Cybersecurity firm Rapid7A successful attack would have allowed the hackers to plant malicious files on the victim’s computer, opening the door for the hacker to gain the ability to run malicious code on the victim’s machine.
This means, effectively, the hacker could take control of the hacked computer.
There is no evidence that this bug was successfully exploited in the wild by hackers. But Targeting video gamers For example, this can be an effective way to install malware on the computers of large numbers of victims and steal their passwords.
