Call of Duty Self-Spreading Worm Takes Aim at Player Lobbies

stapp · Aug 1, 2023

Activision, the video game publisher behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, the popular first-person shooter, has taken the game's servers offline due to a self-propagating worm infecting players using the PC platform.
Players began to notice unusual behavior quickly after the game was brought back due to popular demand, spurring conversation on the Steam discussion page about what appeared to be a self-spreading worm virus existing in the PC version of the game. Users began debating what the malware was — and whether it currently exists on VirusTotal's repository — before Activision ultimately took the game down to assess the severity of the issue.
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