In the game Grand Theft Auto V by Rockstar Games, players must be particularly careful in online mode.
Massive satellite dishes spawn in players’ garages, pedestrians get glued to the heads of their characters, or they explode spontaneously and die. These are scenarios that players of Grand Theft Auto 5 Online have likely experienced through various hackers. In recent weeks, it seemed that the problem with hackers and modders in GTA 5 Online had calmed down a bit. However, there are now new hacks, and they are much worse.
Many countermeasures have already been attempted
The war that developer Rockstar is waging against these hackers has existed since the game’s release. Rockstar has already made various attempts to combat hackers and modders. This included “covertly monitoring player statistics, disabling all modifications, and editing game files with nonsensical code to slow down hackers.
The last system didn’t work quite as the developers had envisioned, as it significantly degraded the game’s performance. Therefore, the “covert monitoring of player statistics” has now been greatly improved so that it can detect anything unusual. It tracks the character’s location, where other players are in relation to their character, how much money they have, what they spend that money on, what missions they are playing, how they interact with other players, and much more. Sounds pretty secure, right?
Unfortunately, this system also has its backdoors, and it is possible for hackers to steal your money now.
Stealing money and tagging players as “unsportsmanlike”
With a new hack, players who use this hack can commit “insurance fraud.” They destroy their own vehicles, but other players on the same server have to pay for these damaged cars. The system thinks at that moment that they have destroyed a teammate’s personal vehicle. In addition to the damage that they must cover, they will also be marked as an “unsportsmanlike player” in the system. This means that in the future, they will end up on servers with players who are also considered unsportsmanlike.
As far as is known, this hack currently exists only on the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5.
This video shows the damage that players suffer due to this hack. So make sure to be careful when you are online in GTA 5.
