wraggster
July 30th, 2012, 20:25
It has been discovered that the Uplay system Ubisoft uses to both check a game is legal and offer up gaming achievements, multiplayer, and additional content, actually contains a rootkit (http://www.geek.com/articles/games/ubisoft-uplay-drm-found-to-include-a-rootkit-20120730/). The discovery was made by Tavis Ormandy, an information security engineer at Google, when he installed Assassin's Creed: Revelations on his laptop. He noticed that during the installation Uplay installed a browser plug-in that allows any website to gain access to your machine through a backdoor and take control of it.The plug-in can be classed as a rootkit because it is thought to allow continued privileged access to a machine without a user's consent."
Update: Ubisoft has released a statement (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/368343/20120730/ubisoft-uplay-fix-patch-rootkit.htm) saying it has issued a forced patch to correct the flaw in the browser plug-in for the Uplay PC application.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/30/1214206/ubisoft-uplay-drm-found-to-include-a-rootkit
Update: Ubisoft has released a statement (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/368343/20120730/ubisoft-uplay-fix-patch-rootkit.htm) saying it has issued a forced patch to correct the flaw in the browser plug-in for the Uplay PC application.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/30/1214206/ubisoft-uplay-drm-found-to-include-a-rootkit