Red Dead Online Hackers Are Trying to Get Streamers Banned
Hackers are becoming a major issue on Red Dead Online. In the last few months, they have been blamed for cheating, harassing players and engaging in racist attacks. Now, hackers are disguising themselves as streamers in an effort to get them banned.
In the last two weeks, a Red Dead Online hacker or hackers have posed as various streamers to frame and ban them. Clips on Twitch show streamers attempting to try out Red Dead's new Naturalist update, only to have their session ruined by the suspect.
The hacker accomplishes this by disguising their username as an unsuspecting streamer, pulling said streamer into their lobby, spawning the streamer and other players on top of each other, and blowing them all up. By spoofing their username to disguise themselves as a targeted streamer, the hacker is able to make it look like it was the streamer who pulled the other players into a lobby and killed them. This is effectively framing the streamer, as if enough players fall for the fake username and file a report, the streamer could get banned.
Streamer HazardousHDTV told PCGamesN that he was targeted by the hacker. After he and many of his followers were pulled into the hacker’s lobby and blown up, Hazardous decided to take a brief break before moving to another lobby. But the hacker followed and continued to harass him, forcing the streamer to quit for the day.
That same night, streamer SwolTV reported a similar incident, but it didn’t stop there. When Swol decided to play Red Dead Online on his PlayStation 4 instead of PC to avoid more of the attacks, he noticed that his bitrate kept dropping to zero. It appears that the hacker was carrying out a DDoS attack to slow Swol’s internet.
“The hacker was able to obtain my IP address, and since he couldn’t attack me anymore on Red Dead Online, he began attacking my internet, resulting in several disconnects from Twitch before ultimately my bitrate never recovered and I could no longer connect at all,” Swol said of the attack.
Several Red Dead Online fans have blamed hackers’ ability to commit such attacks on paid mod menus. YouTube videos show that these mod menus give players a wide array of options, ranging from spawning vehicles to turning on god mode. Hazardous claims that the mod menus also enable hackers to pull streamers into their lobby and view their private information, including IP addresses, ISP, zip codes and country. Several videos on YouTube show hackers using the menus to acquire sensitive data. This is not the first time that hackers have used the mod menus to ban innocent Red Dead Online players.
Rockstar has not announced whether it is looking into the issue. Several fans say that the best solution would be to give players the option to have their own private lobbies. Red Dead Redemption fans have expressed dissatisfaction with the developer following poor reaction to the Naturalist update. Rockstar also had to roll back a recent update after it caused game-breaking glitches.
It is important to note that this is about more than just gaming to streamers. For them, being a streamer is their livelihood. When they are hacked, they lose their income. Hopefully Rockstar gets to the bottom of this issue soon.
Red Dead Online is available on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Source: PCGamesN
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