Call of Duty players attacked by hackers! Here's what happened…

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Recently, there was news about Microsoft and Activision Blizzard's upcoming merger, which led to the publisher addressing the multiplayer servers of older Call of Duty titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops and the original Modern Warfare 2. As a result, numerous gamers, driven by nostalgia, retrieved their old Xbox 360s or installed these classic games on their new Xbox Series consoles..

The Verge reported a significant surge in online matchmaking lobbies for these vintage Call of Duty games, with nearly 100,000 players rejoining the fun...

Hackers have managed to infect the servers of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, as per a report by TechCrunch..

The official Call of Duty Updates account posted a message stating, "Multiplayer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) on Steam has been taken offline as we look into reports of an problem.".

The malware appears to spread automatically from one player to another within online lobbies, but the exact cause of this malware is still unclear..

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