Activision pulls Call of Duty game after PC players are hacked

Activision pulls Call of Duty game after PC players are hacked | The Verge

Call of Duty: Remote Code Execution

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Activision yanks CoD: WWII after PC players get RCE’d

Activision quietly pulled Call of Duty: WWII from the Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass last Friday after reports surfaced of players’ rigs being hacked mid-match—think frozen screens, surprise command-line pop-ups, changed wallpapers and a “you’ve been RCEd” message. The Steam and console versions of the 2017 shooter are still up, but the Game Pass/store build is offline “while we investigate reports of an issue.”

Old build, old problems

According to TechCrunch, June’s Game Pass drop mistakenly used an ancient PC build that still carried a remote-code-execution vulnerability already patched in other versions. Activision hasn’t flipped the switch back on yet, so if you want your WWII fix on PC you’ll have to head over to Steam.