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cyberlurker on April 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: ‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a...

No excuses for Valve or the seriousness of this, but I believe the user needs to “accept” the invite. I did not see that mentioned in the article.

Edit: My mistake, I thought there were accept/deny buttons for invites. In the example video they only have a link: https://youtu.be/rNQn--9xR1Q

Godel_unicode on April 13, 2021 [–]

The very first sentence in the article is """Hackers could take control of victims' computers just by tricking them into clicking on a Steam invite"""

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