GTA Online has its own Dark Souls-style critical security vulnerability on PC

The Rockstar Games-focused account Tez2 (opens in new tab) recently shared evidence of security vulnerabilities in Grand Theft Auto Online. A number of players have reported account progress being reversed, as well as being kicked or blocked from joining games on PC. There is a pinned post on the GTA Online subreddit (opens in new tab) dedicated to the issue and bringing it to Rockstar’s attention, and the developer Speyedr (opens in new tab), who created the custom GTA 5 firewall tool Guardian (opens in new tab), warns that modders using the exploit are on the verge of remote code execution through GTA Online, meaning that hackers could remotely activate malware on PCs running the game.

Tez2 has reported (opens in new tab) that Rockstar is aware of the issue and working on it, and we have reached out to Rockstar for comment.