Call of Duty worm malware used to hack players exploits years-old bug
Reading Time: 2 minutesHeumann said he never published details of the bug since Activision did not fix it, and publishing the bug could put players at risk. Referring to the bug he reported, Heumann said that ‘it’s super easy to exploit.’
‘It’s a simple buffer overflow with only very few limitations,’ he said, referring to a well-known class of vulnerability. ‘Writing a full-fledged exploit is a simple task.’
The sample is now flagged as ‘CoDworm’ by some antivirus engines.
Activision did not respond to a request for comment.
Last week, the game publisher announced that it brought the game offline on the gaming platform Steam ‘while we investigate reports of an issue.’
It’s unclear why the bug reported by Heumann in 2018 was not fixed. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is 14 years old at this point, but the game is still on sale and still has a small community of players who play it online.
The hackers’ goal with this worm also remains a mystery.
Other than finding and reporting bugs on Call of Duty games, Heumann also used to develop an open source, modified and customized version of Call of Duty: Black Ops III that patched serious vulnerabilities that he and others found in the game. This way, Heumann effectively gave players a way to play the game safely. In May, Heumann said Activision sent him a cease and desist letter demanding that he stop the project, which forced him to shut it down.
Ref: techcrunch
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