Call of Duty takes PC game offline after multiple reports of RCE attacks on players

The makers of Call of Duty: World War 2 took the PC version of the game offline over the weekend amid widespread reports online that a remote code execution vulnerability was being used to take over victim computers during live multiplayer matches.

On June 30, the 2017 game was released through Xbox’s GamePass service. On July 5, the X account for game updates announced that the version of the 2017 game for personal computers would be removed from the Microsoft Store “while we investigate reports of an issue.”

But users playing through GamePass quickly began posting videos showing their PCs being taken over during live matches.

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