Dark Souls servers taken down following discovery of critical vulnerability

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Bandai Namco, publisher of the Dark Souls role-playing game series, has taken down its player-versus-player servers while it investigates reports of a serious vulnerability that allows players to execute malicious code on the PCs of fellow players.

Word of the critical remote-code-execution flaw emerged over the weekend in Reddit threads here and here. An exploit that hit a user named The_Grim_Sleeper was captured in a video stream posted over the weekend. Starting around 1:20:22, the user's game crashed, and a robotic voice mocked his gameplay and maturity level.

What the fuck," The_Grim_Sleeper said in response. My game just crashed, and immediately Powershell opened up and started narrating a fucking" screed. I didn't even know that shit was possible."

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