GTA Online has always had problems with hackers who use mod menus to make powerful cheats possible. From a lot of money to teleportation to repeatedly blowing up other players, there is hardly anything that long-established GTA Online fans have not yet experienced.
But now there seems to be a more serious cause for caution. As the Youtuber The Brick Prince reports on Twitter, particularly dangerous mod menus for the PC version are currently in circulation.
These allegedly even allow users to access the personal data of their victims.
The Youtuber goes into more detail about the dangerous functions the hacker menus are supposed to have. If the explanations are correct, the safety of GTA 5 and GTA Online players is at serious risk. Among other things, the mod menu even allows others Get players out of invite-only sessions or individual players.
Link to Twitter content
In addition, it should be possible to mark targeted playersto be notified every time the victim logs into the game. This would enable the hackers to permanently track other players and hunt them down in a targeted manner.
In addition, the Read out IP addresses of other players
In order to blur your own tracks, the mod menus should also include the Make data of the hackers unrecognizable (so-called “spoofing”)so that the victims should not even be able to report the scammers to Rockstar Support.
more on the subject
The Steam security hole opened the door to hackers
How can you protect yourself?
As long as Rockstar does not take appropriate countermeasures, the question of the current security risk in GTA Online is difficult to answer. Since there were hardly any ways to protect yourself from hackers in the multiplayer part of GTA 5, this is even more difficult with the new mod menus.
Since both single-player and multiplayer could be affected, it is currently only recommended if you do not want to take any risks, Avoid GTA 5 and GTA Online completelyuntil Rockstar has agreed how to proceed.
We would like to point out that the existence and effectiveness of these mod menus are currently only based on descriptions by third parties. We contacted Rockstar Games for a comment.
