Notepad messages and porn videos - Call of Duty players issue serious hacking warning

Call of Duty: WW2 was added to Xbox Game Pass on June 30, and since then, the player count of the game has increased significantly, but so have the reports of hackers.

Warnings have been issued by multiple players saying that Call of Duty: WW2 is simply not safe to play on PC, as the frequency of hackers has skyrocketed since the game was added to Game Pass. Players have posted clips of seemingly hackers hijacking PCs mid-game, opening up Notepad with a message, and even opening up pornographic videos on a victim's second monitor.

Reports indicate that hackers are taking advantage of Remote Command Execution (RCE) exploits, which enables a bad actor to take control of another player's game, or even their entire PC.

Essentially, an RCE exploit enables a bad actor to execute code on the target PC remotely, meaning the hacker can install additional malware, viruses, or even harvest data from the target PC if they so choose. Notably, the issue of hackers in Call of Duty: WW2 has been around for quite some time, but it appears the problem has significantly increased recently, per the frequency of reports. Furthermore, many players are finding it hard to believe that this is a problem at all, given the size of Activision and the resources it has at its disposal.

At the moment, it's unclear how deep these issues are within Call of Duty: WW2, but it appears Activision is working on something behind the scenes, as ten Call of Duty games were taken offline earlier this week. If you are wondering if the single-player campaign is still safe to play, it is. This is entirely a multiplayer problem.