Playing GTA Online is currently associated with great risks.
Crime has always reigned in Los Santos, but of course, when an exploit is used to harm players in GTA Online, the fun stops. This may go back to the big leak to GTA 6, the hacker allegedly stole the source code from GTA 5 at the time, which later probably to a small extent also leaked would.
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What’s going on in GTA Online?
In the last few days, a new hack or exploit has been making the rounds for the online offshoot of GTA 5. While the game has been plagued by similar occurrences for years, the new exploit reportedly uses the leaked source code and is particularly problematic.
Players can not only gain all conceivable advantages through cheats, but also cause considerable damage to others, as insider Tez2 warns on Twitter:
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This allows the exploiters – without even joining your session – to change your stats, remove your money and corrupt your account, which can lead to a permanent ban. Tez2 even fears that a new form of exploit could harm your computer outside of the game. However, he does not elaborate on this assumption.
What is Rockstar doing?
The developers seem to be aware of the problem and are working on a solution behind the scenes, as the insider continues. We have reached out to Rockstar for a statement on this and will update it here if we receive a response.
We talked extensively about what leaks can do in last year’s podcast with Fabian Döhla, the PR Manager of CD Projekt Red:
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what can you do
Take a break: To be absolutely safe, it’s probably best not to log into GTA Online at first and put the game aside until the all-clear is given. This is also advised on the GTA Online subreddit.
Do you still want to play advises Tez2 to do so use a firewall rule to ensure that nobody can join your session. However, the author of the tool he recommends insists that this option not guarantee securityand temporarily removed the download link:
The download link has been removed until the RCE exploit is removed. I don’t want beginners misusing Guardian when there’s such a huge risk. Please just take a break.
The community also hopes to force the developers to intervene quickly by reporting the exploit en masse to support. On Reddit, a post describes several ways to alert Rockstar to the issue.
Help for those affected: If your account is already corrupted, promise a temporary solution you help. In this case, you simply have to open the folder in your documents Rockstar Games
delete it, and then start the game again. Rockstar support also promises on its website Help recovering your access.
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