Capcom’s latest update for Street Fighter V was installing a secret rootkit on PCs. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes The Register:
This means malicious software on the system can poke a dodgy driver installed by Street Fighter V to completely take over the Windows machine. Capcom claims it uses the driver to stop players from hacking…to cheat. Unfortunately, the code is so badly designed, it opens up a full-blown local backdoor… 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

Friday Capcom tweeted “We are in the process of rolling back the security measures added to the PC version of Street Fighter V.” This prompted one user to reply, “literal rootkits are the opposite of security measures.”

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Source: Slashdot – Street Fighter V Update Installed Hidden Rootkits on PCs