
Submission + - Bug on EA's Origin game platform allows attackers to hijack player PCs (arstechnica.com)
ganjadude writes: "Millions upon millions could be at risk due to the attack that was displayed this past friday at the black hat security conference.
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"The Origin platform allows malicious users to exploit local vulnerabilities or features by abusing the Origin URI handling mechanism," ReVuln researchers Donato Ferrante and Luigi Auriemma wrote in a paper accompanying last week's demonstration. "In other words, an attacker can craft a malicious Internet link to execute malicious code remotely on [a] victim's system, which has Origin installed.
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