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Street Fighter V Update Installed Hidden Rootkits on PCs (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the gaming-your-system dept.

Capcom's latest update for Street Fighter V was installing a secret rootkit on PCs. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes The Register: This means malicious software on the system can poke a dodgy driver installed by Street Fighter V to completely take over the Windows machine. Capcom claims it uses the driver to stop players from hacking...to cheat. Unfortunately, the code is so badly designed, it opens up a full-blown local backdoor... it switches off a crucial security defense in the operating system, then runs whatever instructions are given to it by the application, and then switches the protection back on
Friday Capcom tweeted "We are in the process of rolling back the security measures added to the PC version of Street Fighter V." This prompted one user to reply, "literal rootkits are the opposite of security measures."

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  1. This should be the death of Capcom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only a fool would install a game made by them after this.

    1. Re:This should be the death of Capcom by Calydor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You mean like Windows 10 and updates?

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  2. Re: Adding Capcom to tech boycott by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What we need to be doing is getting executives arrested for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That awful law has been used to prosecute hackers and hobbyists for much more minor things than this, and has been twisted enough to fit various cases that there's more than enough precedent now.