A major US gaming company is gearing up to respond to new cheats that may appear in its titles following a ransomware breach last week.
California-based Riot Games said yesterday it had received a ransom demand but would not pay it. If so, it could cause problems for the company in the future.
The Tencent-owned company has confirmed that the source code for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and a “traditional anti-cheat platform” were obtained by the attackers.
“Honestly, new cheats are more likely to emerge once the source code is made public,” Riot Games admitted on Twitter. We have been working to evaluate this and deploy a fix as soon as possible, if necessary.”
The company added that the attackers also stole source code related to some experimental features.
“While we hope that some of these game modes and other changes will be made available to players eventually, most of this content is a prototype and there is no guarantee that it will ever be released.
“This attack disrupted our build environment and may cause problems in the future, but most importantly, we have confidence that no player data or player personal information has been compromised. That’s it.”
The game developer first revealed news of the breach late last week, claiming that an unspecified “system of development environments” was compromised through social engineering tactics.
The violation has temporarily halted all releases and updates, including patches for League of Legends.
However, it appears to be on track now.
“Our security team and globally recognized external consultants continue to assess the attack and audit our systems. We are actively cooperating with law enforcement.” The company concluded.
“We have made a lot of progress since last week and believe we will have a fix for the issue later in the week, which will allow us to maintain our normal patch frequency going forward. We’ll update soon on what that means in-game.”
Security watchers will be pleasantly surprised by the company’s transparency, promised in time for a full report analyzing the attack and what went wrong from a security perspective.
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