Twitter reacts to Apex Legends Tournament RCE Hack

On March 17th 2024, The NA Regional Finals tournament for Apex Legends had two of it's players fall victim to an RCE exploit mid-match. This specific exploit allowed the hackers to download and run cheating programs through Apex Legends itself. The victims of this exploit, players by the handles "Genburten" and Imperial Hal shared both of their perspectives on "X", formerly twitter. Genburten, real name Noyan Ozkose, was able to automatically track hidden players with his hands above his head.

JMeyels shared Genburten's perspective at 5:13 PM on Mar 17, 2024. This version of the clip can clearly make out the box of the cheat client, the automated chat messages from Genburten's hacked account and unseen player's locations.

Genburten shared a low resolution clip of him being hacked on his account. In the clip, Genburten's account Posted at 6:06 PM on Mar 17, 2024

The hack was claimed by users Destroyer2009 and R4ndom through automated messages posted by Genburten's account after it was compromised. Users quickly commented on the hypothetical situation on if the hack was not claimed by those supposedly involved.

Apex Legends content creator and competitor within the tournament, "HisWattson", gave his thoughts on the situation. Shared on Mar 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM

This exploit raised concerns on the security of playing Apex Legends by many different accounts. At this time, the source of the exploit was thought to be through Apex Legend's itself or through the game's Anti-Cheat. Apex Legends uses Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC), a popular Anti-cheat used in a variety of multiplayer games to detect and prevent cheaters from playing. EAC is used in games such as Fortnite, Dead by Daylight and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.

Posted on Mar 17th, 2024 at 6:10 PM

Apex Legends content creator and competitor within the tournament, "HisWattson", gave his thoughts on the situation. Posted on Mar 17, 2024 at 5:17 PM

"X" account, "Anti-Cheat Police Department" shared a warning about playing games using EAC or EA titles on Mar 17, 2024 at 6:06 PM. The post got around 13 thousand likes and 8.6 thousand reposts.

Dead by Daylight player "Gorejira" sharing -Anti-Cheat Police Department's warning on Mar 17, 2024. DBD uses EAC.

EAC put out a statement on the situation on Mar 18 at 6:58. According to EAC, the RCE exploit not from a vulnerability within their software.

Twitter users react to this

Apex Legends developer, Respawn Entertainment, put out a statement on Mar 19 at 8:03 PM. Additionally, the tournament was rescheduled to April. X users shared their reactions to the statement.

Posted by Pirate Software on Mar 20, 2024. Pirate Software was one of many accounts trying to understand the extent of the RCE Exploit from the outside

Posted on Mar 19 2024, at 8:06

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