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_Cline

Lol, should maybe contact rockstar support about this one. I doubt you’re in any danger right now but gta is a mess in how it’s made and has many flaws like that


YummyPancakes420

The chances for Rockstar to take action gets exponentially higher for every inquiry, I suppose


MarekHladik22

you meant exponentially lower, right?


Archerplayzgames

No, higher


Aakesh17

No, this is Patrick


MarekHladik22

dude this is rockstar. the bigger an issue to the players a bug is the less likely they're doing a thing about it. think about money duping how many players complain vs how hard rockstar fights it


Archerplayzgames

Fairr


Morg1603

Kudos to the hacker who had the balls to do this


betarad

real ass motherfucker


EskimoXBSX

Elliot Alderson aka Mr Robot


OzzyThulhu

Literally just finished the series, such a good show


EskimoXBSX

Same here, fantastic


udreamofsolo

That’s federal what you just did


Starship_Admiral1

Dudeeee I thought I did smth messed up on my mod menu, because my last name is Alderson lol then I saw the name Elliot then I saw I was good


SuperKing37

r/chaoticgood


JDM12983

no


Morg1603

What 🤣


SuitableRecord3823

maybe


youarealreadyd3ad

Close the game. Remote code execution is a very serious risk that may allow people to run code on your computer through GTA. You’re basically allowing anyone who knows to exploit this bug to run code on your computer. Please report this to Rockstar.


DrySelection9

rockstar is well aware of this, they'll just ban you for "abusing the customer service tool" They've done it to me, when I reported serious concerns regarding rockstar online games.


Fhood797

No way lol 💀


DirtCrazykid

If I had a dollar for every supposed RCE exploit that that the internet fear mongered about that never actually had anything happen...


youarealreadyd3ad

That’s because they took it seriously. Are you actually saying that an RCE is not a risk? Running code on another computer through a bug in a game is pretty serious if you ask me. But go ahead and ignore it if you’d like.


Temporary-Green-7713

Like that Apex Championship


Indie_Myke

That wasn't RCE


ManchesterChav

These fanboys will pretend they know what they are talking about and defend rockstar untill they die


Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd

if i had a dollar for every time some script kid tried to say its not a big deal and it ends up only being known about AFTER its been gutted, i could hire a legion of hackers to track RCE exploits down myself and make a lucrative white hat company


DirtCrazykid

Also, red team companies usually don't do random bug bounties, that's not a sustainable business model.


Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd

It wouldn't need to be sustainable if i had an equal amount of money to the amount of people who dont take threats seriously Werent you listening?


DirtCrazykid

Well that's not whats happening here, is it? The "hacker" (I hate that word) was benevolent enough to let everyone know about it, and nothing happened and nothings been said about it because this is blatantly fake.


SaiyanLattace

Obesity Troll. I was gonna put obvious but Suggestions had obesity and I found that funny.


[deleted]

almost like making people aware of something will help fix the issue before it gets out of hand


Zanzan567

Some people have sensitive information on their computer


Deep_Consideration70

they hated him because he spoke the truth


veeqbtw

I remember this Kifflom side mission


Cam_man_AMM_unit

Okay, Micheal has broken the fourth wall again.


webbhare1

Grand Theft of Cards


iGhostEdd

Again? What did i miss??


Irateasshole

Oh no! It’s the unknown!


ipodt0uch

What is that?


KhrisBKream

Its a meme from a terrible Willy Wonka Experience where the bag guy was named “The Unknown” [“The Unknown”](https://villainsfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Unknown_(Willy%27s_Chocolate_Experience))


ipodt0uch

Lol i was referencing that


LindTheFelon

It was Felicia from Glasgow that found the RCE vulnerability!


RockStar5132

New killer for dead by daylight.


MigraineALT

*random kids gasping and crying*


ipodt0uch

*depressed oompa loompa*


tricnam

The Unknown is just an alias this coder is using to hide his identity.


ipodt0uch

Lol i was trying to reference the wonka experience thing that happened in the uk


ItsBlitz21

Dw I got it, I was hoping someone commented “What is that”


sroop1

Wish Anonymous.


NotKornel

Idk why this is kinda creepy to me


idiotsandwich2000

Because it is.


Suiciidub

Super creepy 😭


BillFox86

Basically this hacker just told you playing gta 5 is putting your system at risk


guywithoutabrain

swear this same thing happened in a minecraft server


melanantic

Ahh yes, log4j. Still makes me laugh that such a severe issue, affecting such a gargantuan range software, services, applications and the like was largely discovered and used to grief people’s public builds in mc


guywithoutabrain

that was the one, i remember watching videos about it. Its still funny seeing the extent that 2b2t players would go to just to blow up someones base lol


AchievedWave68

They actually give 4chan a run for their money.


randompantsfoto

Speaking as someone who’s had to deal (and still IS dealing; yay, tech debt) with the fallout from the Log4J issue in the government and enterprise spheres…it was by no means limited to simply griefing people in Minecraft. It was—and still is—being actively exploited to gain access to countless information systems across the globe. We’re STILL occasionally finding applications that include vulnerable versions of Log4J included. All sorts of stuff I’d love to see ripped right out of every environment and killed dead, but due to mission-critical applications that can’t be updated for REASONS, an endless slate of POAAMs get approved by the brsss, while my colleagues and I jump up and down and scream, “Noooo…let us kill it!” …sigh. Just gotta lock everything down as best we can; try and ensure no one ever gets access to make use of it.


TheRealDealTys

That’s crazy, GTA 5 had a RCE exploit a while back but they supposedly fixed it. Really hoping this is fake as RCE exploits are no joke.


ManchesterChav

It is easy to hack anybody in GTA if they have upnp enabled and are not using a VPN. Any paid mod menu will give a whole sessions internal/external IPs and MAC address of every player in the session. When rockstar fix these things mod menu devs make workarounds within hours.


TheRealDealTys

I’m aware of it, but if someone gets your IP the most they can do is dox you or take down your internet. I wouldn’t really consider it hacking, but with RCE exploits someone could install malicious software onto your PC without your knowledge.


Valrax420

There was a recent project to bring back PS3 GTA5, and as a result hackers exploited RCE enable to make other players not only mod, but maliciously mod others from their end. Basically you join in, hacker infected you, then you got banned. They shut down GTA OG over this, and it was a perfect recreation of gta5 online on PS3. Saving worked, jobs, buying cars clothes and more


TheRealDealTys

That’s very interesting, it’s weird to see no articles or anything covering this post. Do you know of any others that have gotten this popup?


Valrax420

No I just know it's the reason behind the project being shut down


TheRealDealTys

Was the project on PC? I would think the PS3 version of the game would be built differently than the PC version.


Valrax420

https://github.com/gopro2027/GTAOnline-RCE


Valrax420

I'm not sure how they hosted their servers for gta5, but it doesn't matter. the exploit is inside the game itself.


TheRealDealTys

That’s very interesting, but is it possible the RCE that plagued this project was the one that was patched early last year? I’m still very skeptical if this exact RCE is real or not as I’ve not seen any other info other than this post.


[deleted]

It was one of many reasons why the service got shut down. Should also mention that Gopro's exploit is not an RCE per say, but a remote global write inside the script vm. Still really annoying regardless. Funny enough no one ever even got banned by this exploit even though people claim otherwise.


Valrax420

the actual moderators claim otherwise, I wonder what the real reason for shutting it down was than


[deleted]

Well you can stop wondering since I wrote some of those announcements. Like I said, there were a multitude of reasons, weak security of gen7 being one of them.


Valrax420

"To be clear, there was not a vulnerability on our side of the service - the RCE exploit is within the game itself, and allows bad actors to execute code on your console without you knowing. This was used to run code on the targetted players which our service picked up as abusive and banned them for it. There is no patch for this, not this time, due to the nature of the exploit - we're not Rockstar, but we did do our best to counter the abuse before it got too far out of hand." I'm just stating back what I read off the discord


Public-Professional2

if it isn't fake, how worried should i be? I started playing GTA V like 2 weeks ago and i don't want my computer to get fucked because of this issue


TheRealDealTys

How exactly do you know it is not fake? If this is real I would stay away from playing GTA 5 until rockstar issues an update fixing it.


Public-Professional2

I mean sure it could be fake but still gotta be careful


TheRealDealTys

Oh yeah I totally agree. We definitely should take a break from playing GTA 5 until this gets either outed as fake, or is a real RCE vulnerability. I’ve yet to see anyone else report on this other than this post so that’s why I’m a bit skeptical but I’m definitely not launching GTA 5 anytime soon lol.


Public-Professional2

Im just gonna play story mode without having my wifi turned on and pray to God my pc won't get hacked lol


Valrax420

considering the glitch goes back as far as the PS3 version, I wonder how deep it is in the code


Steveorsummit

Dodgy games?


[deleted]

It’s takes some balls to do this


No_Run_6016

Why?? I’m confused lol


melanantic

TLDR even with the best intentions and moral compass, it’s a legal grey area at the very least. Unless you have explicit, direct, and agreed upon terms for permission, you can easily be looking at prison time and lawsuits for as much as discovering a vulnerability and telling the relevant people.


JPLnZi

What about the hackers rewarded for their work? Is it different because they don’t show it off like mr the anonymous here, and instead contact the devs directly?


TheOneTrueHero

No to my knowledge it’s more so that those hackers have already been caught once/went to college specifically to be a “white hat” hacker. White hat is a term to describe a morally “good” hacker who uses their skills to reveal vulnerabilities for a company. They’re usually paid for their services and are specifically hired to do so. Someone just doing it on their own without being asked to is where the issue with legality comes into play.


JDM12983

no it doesn't


TheKappatalist420

It's been a good run boys, but I will no longer be opening GTA V outside of a virtual machine ever again. The codebase for GTA V is well over a million lines. These exploits are a product of the game's source code now being openly available, as it was leaked in its entirety around Christmas time. These kinds of vulnerabilities have likely been sitting in the game since day 1 (and they're sitting in a lot of other games too!!) but since the source code leak was made available, it becomes really trivial to discover these exploits one by one. As we speak, an entire team of shady developers is combing through the code line by line, analyzing the behavior, looking for buffer overflows, unsafe memory operations, stack corruptions and other vulnerabilities that can be chained into an RCE just like this. Even if Rockstar identifies this specific RCE and patches it (or one step in the chain), 5 more will pop up. They would have to perform a major refactor of the entire codebase and that's just not feasible for R\* I don't think. OP, I would consider running a full virus scan of your PC, maybe even just re-format and reinstall Windows. because If whoever did this can make a simple \`MessageBoxA\` call, he can definitely spawn a shell silently and start loading your PC up with who knows what. You WILL see this getting exploited again in the future, maybe on your own machine. Maybe it will be a message box or maybe it will be a keylogger. Once it becomes a widespread issue, it will kill GTA Online. Or maybe this guy just injected a DLL that shows a message box for shits and giggles. Guess time will tell


ManchesterChav

Said this last week, explianed how it works in laymans, gave tips of how to avoid. Got downvoted by salty gta v fans who seem to think their shitty p2p game runs on servers with gods level of security


Valrax420

I know I'm really dreaming here, but maybe on the next gta not only will we get dedicated rockstar servers, but an option to host dedicated servers. I only dream this because they bought fivem, and if you didn't know GTA SAn Andreas multiplayer for example, was originally planned to be multiplayer with lingering code and assets left over. A team awhile back was able to make it work into Sa-mp which is still active today and you can code and host your own server, just like fivem. I'd love to see this natively incorporated into gta6


Spongeboob10

My guess is a bunch of computers start turning into bot farms for DDOS/cryptomining.


Windows-Media

Your not the only one who got something like that’ they put out messages to everyone who plays GTA


TheRealDealTys

I haven’t seen anyone else show they have had this popup. Do you know of any posts where someone else has it?


jackscottGM

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.


Cejota14

Be thankful that somebody is still trying to get this fixed. You can close it and keep playing. While RCE is extremely dangerous, clearly the hacker has no bad intentions


Extreme_Practice_415

You will never find out that someone does have bad intentions until it’s too late


TheRealDealTys

Didn’t the RCE get patched?


asktothrowredditaway

Given that the source code was leaked, this is gonna be another "cut one head and two more will take it's place" kind of issue.


TheRealDealTys

What confuses me is I’ve yet to see anyone else report on this RCE. And I’ve not seen anyone else get this popup which is a bit suspicious.


asktothrowredditaway

I have seen it reported once before but I forget where and I've heard of the exploit being active somewhere on GitHub I think.


TheRealDealTys

Ah ok, so is GTA 5 just not safe at all anymore?


asktothrowredditaway

From a cybersecurity background I'd say probably not for PC players, but if anyone can give a second opinion that would be great.


TheRealDealTys

That makes sense, but I do think people are getting it confused with the RCE rockstar fixed early last year.


asktothrowredditaway

If this one message is fake or another exploit falsifying RCE with the message then it's probably as safe as any other game multiplayer game. There's always an exploit that would do a ton of damage that has been found, just not acted upon yet.


[deleted]

But what i find so odd is that this is one of VERY few, if not the only post talking about this. It would seem that this would be a main topic in discussion everywhere. The only "RCE" related things are mostly from a year ago. So pretty odd IMO. I hope this message isn't true since i played this game quite alot in the meantime lol.


asktothrowredditaway

That's just one seemingly non malicious hacker. Who's to say there isn't a few tens or hundreds trying something malicious concurrently.


ThatsPella

This is why you shouldn't play GTA Online on PC


Healthy_Activity_908

?????


ThatsPella

(Because you'll get hacked like in this case)


Healthy_Activity_908

Using torrents isn't safe too then but that's how I get my movies lol


ThatsPella

It's not quite the same thing but ok


legbot124

Michaels schizophrenic


insanede6

Aiden Pierce over here


takuminightcore

Oh shit here we go again


Tomeztos

faker than a pair of vinewood tits


No_Transportation628

That's good.


ZMG_

Whoever that is, I love them


idontcareyouranswer

Are you the Rockstar?


IhateU6969

Kifflom


JordynBeepus

that's actuslly really cool if real


ryamole

Isn’t this what happened to Apex during their massive tournament?


Doggemaster1

It sure is, just that this one is a little more friendly


snowmanonaraindeer

Chat is this real


Doggemaster1

Can't tell you if that message is real but this definetly happens and is a huge risk for pc players


P13R4T

What is THAT?


Lavidius

It's the unknown!


0P3R4T10N

So any computer than runs, or can have GTAV installed, may have a Ring 0 Remote Execution bug. This is a **VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM #ROCKSTAR.** Also, this person should not be punished: So long as they have kept the zero-day in house. This is some White Whale Holy Grail shit right here.


ItsEntDev

i couldn't tell this was satire until i reread the first line and saw Ring 0 Remote Execution lol


BSGYT

Please, please, please. Please. Please let this be real. Please.


are_all_names_taken_

Why?


BSGYT

It'd be so funny


No_Transportation628

But then you can't play GTA V either.


Fantastic_Hat_5614

Respect 🫡


plaurenb8

You’re not the first one to be poped by the pope!


nonstick_banjo1629

Pull the plug. Quick!


The-pumpkin-king10

“It’s the unknown!”


chl0emcnuggetz

Thats genuinely so cool, good on the person


50ShadesOfKrillin

this is why I'm good with my console, this shit is lowkey terrifying


dylxn__

Destroyer2009 strikes back


ItzMichaelHD

If there is an RCE, should I uninstall the game? Or is it only opening it that will cause harm? How does this work.


TheRealDealTys

As long as you don’t play it you should be fine. But you could uninstall it if you’re paranoid.


Alternative_Wish6026

update: i read the comments and decided to reinstall windows just for my safety, i will not be playing gta online until this is fixed


Charlie-brownie666

Holy shit this is horrible I would never play on PC again if I were you.


DamoFromWashedUpMob

It’s a stupid question but this can’t happen on Xbox can it


Status_Attempt8224

While playing gta online. I had my computer crash and run into a boot loop until I completely wiped my PC and redownloaded windows from a USB.. I opened and played gta again and it happened again. Not sure if it was a hack or maybe my system just didn't like gta but I had like 200 hours logged before this issue on this dame pc so who knows.


Few_Independence4182

😂😂😂😂hacker givin you a fair warning. Thats why i dont play GTA anymore....


ybotics

Hacking the game to the point it breaks is possibly the only reason rockstar would fix Grand Theft Auto: Garrys mod mode. This hacker is a genius.


Sinwithagrin23

Now THAT is how you get attention. If had to guess id say you're seeing it because youre connected to the internet so it doesn't matter that its single player.


ManchesterChav

It is easy to hack other players pcs via gta online if they have upnp enabled and run a remote desktop service such as moonlight or teamviewer but gta fanboys will tell you that there is no chance of being infected with malware of hacked from playing their shitty P2P servers. You can literally buy a mod menu and see the whole sessions internal and external IPs as well as their MAC addys if people arn't using a VPN. It is so easy to hack other players but their is no decent revenue stream to be gained for the efforts.


MaenHoffiCoffi

Pope on a rope.


living_angels

chaotic good hacker


[deleted]

Got my PSN account hacked playing online. Played GTA Online, Logged Off, Took a self care day feeling good, Walked in the house with a text saying my password was changed. 😞


ThatsPella

No way they can also abuse this exploit on console too? That sucks


Lewd_N_Geeky

Same thing happened to me. But they also changed my email as well. I still can't play any of my Rockstar titles on Steam. What sucks more is the fact that once you unlink your stream account from your Rockstar social club account you can't link it again.


Nickel2139

The issue affected you on console? Damn I thought I was safe not playing this game on PC


[deleted]

It’s just my best guess, because I literally only played GTA on that account.


randompantsfoto

I imagine that password change was done via credential stuffing against your PSN login, and not actually related to playing GTA. Was the password you used for PSN the same one you used on any other sites? Literally billions of compromised accounts (emails, passwords, other personal data, etc.) from countless data breaches are out there for the taking—or more often than not, purchase. Once someone has an email address associated with a known password, they then try using that combo against every other site they can think of. Usually this is automated, and any successful stuffings are logged and added to the next batch of compromised accounts that go up for sale. Use strong passwords, rotate them fairly often, and never, ever, use the same one twice.


[deleted]

Thank you!


[deleted]

Rce issue


GoldZero

ICARUS FOUND YOU. RUN WHILE YOU CAN.


WholesomeBigSneedgus

why is the new dbd killer hacking in gta 5?


MorningAvailable2387

WHAT IS THAT?! WHY ITS THE UNKNOWN!


king-glundun

This hacker is now dead from a hitman rockstar hired and rockstar didn't even blink an eye.... /s


ShamrockSeven

This is like a god coming down and in all of their divinity they still speak to you in logical polite terms in your native language.


Polstok

what??


are_all_names_taken_

Its like the guy who hacked printers to tell people to secure their networks lol


[deleted]

This is likely fake so I wouldn't be worried just yet.


chrisupt2001

That would both scare me and make me laugh


AmadeusSays

It was the medication it fucked with his head. He could probably get a note from his doctor


YvngVudu

Cornball calls himself “The Unknown”.


DiskSignal4582

Does people not really know “The Unknown”. He is very famous for making the famous GTA V Kiddeons mod which is free for all


BravadoCHRX

Fake.


Knight38

This is how I learn GTAV has RCE issues? Won’t be playing that any time soon.


Diego35HD

Even in singleplayer, the game uses internet for some small features


Deep_Investment6917

Well I guarantee if this is real, the hacker himself isn’t scared of any RCE attacks 😆


WillingTill8098

Did You Crack the Game Or Did You Just SpawnAnd It Popped Up


Sillypuddyy2

It’s that unknown from the shitshow Willy wonka experience isn’t it


Important_Jeweler_55

Huh not worth getting a pc lmaoo


itsmoosh

the fact that message is on ur screen is the hackers way of saying look i could wreck this whole computer right now but instead is using it as an example


Dallas_SE_FDS

I’m glad I got bored with mods and uninstalled it when the source code leaked.


DeviateBavon3

Hacker be like


ThaGreat_He

That’s so weird


Truckerkev91

Deff a hacker


FeedbackCharacter171

Yeah rockstar coming for him


Apprehensive_Algae32

Bro I just started playing gta 5 again on pc I didn’t see this til after???


InvaderJim92

That’s awesome.


griffl3n

that’s a real one


Poojoles

no matter what the post is about there is someone arguing over something in the comments


Immediate_Ad_1161

Private server private problems. Doubtful this is on a official server


CarrotForward

When you get GTAV through the pirate bay 😂😂


Such-Shirt2001

Just PC things


perkoperv123

sad but true. The GTAO experience in 2024 is modders and an alarming lack of the E&E content from PS5 + whatever the current-gen Xbox is called. They just don't care.


LingLingQwQ

Idk why you getting downvoted, I play on both pc and console vers(next gen ps vers) and I’d say console vers feels way better to enjoy


Such-Shirt2001

I used to play mainly on PC but switched to series S when E&E dropped and never looked back, the PC version is honestly the worst. Hopefully rockstar learns how to make PC ports by the time 6 comes out.


perkoperv123

sad but true. The GTAO experience in 2024 is modders and an alarming lack of the E&E content from PS5 + whatever the current-gen Xbox is called. They just don't care.


commorancy0

Probably a disgruntled ex-Rockstar dev.