Another day, another DRM controversy – and today it’s allegations that Ubisoft’s Uplay DRM installs a rootkit that exposes your PC to browser-based intrusion. Or maybe it’s an Abstergo Industries plot.<\/p>\n
The claims comes via white hat hacker, Tavis Ormandy, who published an exploit that allows remote control of any PC with Uplay installed.<\/p>\n
“While on vacation recently I bought a video game called Assassin’s Creed Revelations,” he wrote over on goodie hacker news site, Seclists<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I didn’t have much of a chance to play it, but it seems fun so far. However, I noticed the installation procedure creates a browser plugin for its accompanying Uplay launcher, which grants unexpectedly (at least to me) wide access to websites.\u201d<\/p>\n Most of Ubisoft’s recent games require Uplay, including the Assassin’s Creed series and the new Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.<\/p>\n According to security experts, though, it looks like the vulnerability may have been quite unintentional.<\/p>\n “Functionality in the Uplay browser extension, that normally enables games to be launched from a web browser, turns out can also be used to launch any other program on the system,” an anonymous expert told CVG.<\/p>\n “In the demonstration making its rounds on the internet, the code launched a calculator.”<\/p>\n Ubisoft has apparently declined comment, but probably because they’re too busy fixing it to answer the phone.<\/p>\n Student arrested over Wii homebrew hack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sony hackers plead guilty to attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nSource: CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n
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