If things couldn't get any worse for EA after the Sim City problems, a big has been found in the Origin game platform. The bug itself grants the hacker access to basically all the resources of your computer.
Source via Ars Technica
ps. Hopefully EA makes changes and fixes this quickly. The damage could be pretty severe and they don't need any more bad publicity.
The attack, demonstrated on Friday at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam, takes just seconds to execute. In some cases, it requires no interaction by victims, researchers from Malta-based ReVuln (@revuln) told Ars. It works by manipulating the uniform resource identifiers EA's site uses to automatically start games on an end user's machine. By exploiting flaws in the Origin application available for both Macs and PCs, the technique turns EA's popular game store into an attack platform that can covertly install malware on customers' computers.
Source via Ars Technica
ps. Hopefully EA makes changes and fixes this quickly. The damage could be pretty severe and they don't need any more bad publicity.