Elden Ring maker Bandai Namco hit by ransomware and data leaks

Its not been a great couple of months for gaming giant Bandai Namco. The name behind smash hit titles like Elden Ring and Dark Souls has endured a long run of cheats and hacks. Hacking concerns led to Remote Code Execution issues, and multiplayer features in Souls titles were disabled for months...

Just-Released Dark Souls Game, Elden Ring, Includes Killer Bug

The latest installment of the Dark Souls gaming franchise, Elden Ring, contains a security vulnerability that allows bad actors to throw players on PCs into an endless loop of losing their characters’ lives, rendering it essentially unplayable. Malwarebytes Labs researcher Christopher Boyd said...

Elden Ring exploit traps players in infinite death loop

Back in January, we wrote about how the Dark Souls games had their online components switched off for PC gamers. This is because someone figured out how to execute code remotely on the target’s PC. Given that the multiplayer angle of Souls games is rather important, this was quite a body blow for...

Dark Souls 3 Servers Shut Down Due to Critical RCE Bug

There’s a dangerous remote-code execution RCE bug in the Dark Souls video game that could let attackers brick the PCs of online players. The flaw could allow attackers to do pretty much anything: As Kaspersky researchers explained on Monday, the bug “allows an attacker to execute almost any progr...