{"id":1216,"date":"2017-02-20T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/counter-strike-gets-invaded-by-an-unblockable-chat-bot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:03:55","slug":"counter-strike-gets-invaded-by-an-unblockable-chat-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/counter-strike-gets-invaded-by-an-unblockable-chat-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“At least one intruder is taking advantage of a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive exploit to flood lobbies (even private ones) with text from chat bots that can’t be kicked, ampoule<\/a> ” writes Engadget. The attack “allegedly comes from one person,” according to Kotaku, which reports that “It’s a similar exploit to one found a few weeks ago, where typing messages into a lobby allowed users to rank up and down as they chose.” The chat bot’s text includes various complaints about Counter-Strike which it claims motivated the attack, including cheaters, hackers and “bugs that break the game,” and it urges a one-day boycott “to proof [sic] them that we care about the game and want them to fix it.”<\/p>\n

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An anonymous reader writes: “At least one intruder is taking advantage of a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive exploit to flood lobbies (even private ones) with text from chat bots that can’t be kicked, ampoule ” writes Engadget. The attack “allegedly comes from one person,” according to Kotaku, which reports that “It’s a similar exploit to one… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t