Apex Legends pro tourney canned following cheaty cyberattack

Updated Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack. In the early hours of Monday morning, two professional Apex Legends players competing in two separate matches were forcibly given cheats on their accounts – events that have seen the tournament temporarily shut down. Noyan Ozkose (whose alias is Genburten) of the Dark Zero team was suddenly given the ability to see all opponents through walls, while Phillip Dosen (alias: ImperialHal) of the TSM team was also suddenly gifted the ability to aim automatically at his opponents without any manual application to the controller – an "aimbot." ImperialHal remained in the game server until organizers shut it down, but was issued a ban by the game itself after it detected a cheat system running. Teammate Evan Verhulst (alias: Verhulst) also received a ban. There is no suggestion the players were anything but horrified at being gifted the sudden "hacks," as the panicked audio in the linked Twitter feeds attest. The community suspects that the attacker responsible for the intrusion exploited an unpatched remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Apex Legends game. This was backed up by messages sent from the alleged attacker to the individual behind AntiCheatPD, an X account that gathers information about video game cheats, claiming that the incident was caused by an RCE exploit. The messages didn't specify the compo...