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Street Fighter V Installs Hidden Rootkit On PCs
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26th September 2016, 08:08
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Street Fighter V Installs Hidden Rootkit On PCs It's times like these where I'm glad to have waited before buying a newish title. An update to the newest Street Fighter game allows any application to have kernel-level privileges. While the driver was intended to prevent players from hacking the title, it allows someone to hack your entire system instead. …the capcom.sys kernel-level driver provides an IOCTL service to applications that disables SMEP on the computer, executes code at a given pointer, and then reenables SMEP. In other words, it switches off a crucial security defense in the operating system, then runs whatever instructions are given to it by the application, and then switches the protection back on. SMEP [PDF] is a feature in modern Intel and AMD x86 processors that, when enabled, prevents kernel-level software from executing code in user-owned memory pages. http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/09/...ootkit_on_pcs/ |
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