These games carry REAL security risks! BEWARE!

So the title of this video should've been " These MODS carry Real security risk! Beware" LMAO

Where's my single-player gang at? 👍

as someone who has no friends to play multiplayer with, i see this as a win

I hate to tell you but The Sims, Farming Simulator, Cities Skylines, Even American ETS2 Truck Simulator have all had breaches recently. No matter what game you need to make sure you are downloading mods from a reliable/trusted source. Look for sources that do not immediately list mods until they have been checked, or known popular modders on their actual site. Love that you covered this.

2:15 GTA V online 4:28 Minecraft 5:49 CSGO / CS2 8:58 World of Warcraft 11:15 Battlefield 4 12:04 Fortnite 12:51 Diablo II Resurrected 13:05 Valorant 17:36 Surveys from the article

Basically Jay: "But fuck Norton..." I laughed so hard.

I'd just like to add to the conversation that both Valorant and League of Legends, from Riot, have anticheats with kernel level. That's what I call dangerous...

I am surprised Roblox is not on that list.

The Sims 4 players have actually been having problems with mods that contain malware due to the fact that scripting mods are basically just python files disguised as .ts4script files. Thankfully TwistedMexi, a well known and respected modder, made a great anti malware mod too combat this, but it just shows that no franchise is really "safe" if it has a big enough modding scene.

Hey Jay, Minecraft Dungeons is an entirely separate game developed by Mojang. It's official.

61 yo female here messing up your demographic. :) Ive been subscribed to you for going on 2 years. I build my computers and youve been a huge help. But ive also been playing WoW for 19 years and had my account stolen (before I had an authenticator) and Blizzard replaced all of my items. Ive had to contact Blizzard a couple of times for problems and theyve always done everything to make things right.

I did get banned on wow once , I was a Guild master and they disbanded the guild , took everything (i was told) , took and mailed all the money away , cleared my friends list within 5 minutes. I was playing one minute , kicked out of server , never been able to log back in , and it got locked and banned . That was 2010 by the way. Took me jump hoops after hoops for 2 days and finally found a GM to prove that was in no way it was me (IP difference and apparently the login cycle helped) , everything got restored 3 days later , gold gear and guild remade , had to re-invite everyone, had to re-add everyone on frd list and ALOT of explaining to do because back then , getting hacked , others blame you. And lost a raid week. And no , I don't have a single mod , it was pure vanilla. These days tho .... good luck finding a human GM at Blizzard.

Black ops 3 legit allows remote shell execution while its still one of the most popular zombies games

You know what else carries actual, severe security risks? Kernel-level anti-cheat (rootkit) drivers that operate on Ring-0, giving unfettered administrative access to the kernel of your operating system. It's only a matter of time before these drivers get exploited, opening entire doors for full Remote Code Execution and Injection.

Best mods I've played: Half Life where you can be Superman, Batman, a mailbox, etc. It was silly. Unreal Tournament where you're mini characters and play in a bathroom, with a working toilet.

I gave up on the Call of Duty series long ago. Not so much for the threat of malware, but for the hacking. They ditched Punkbuster and added their own anti-cheat software that seemed to do absolutely nothing. Almost every version of CoD after that, that I played, was ruled by hackers. I had enough and walked away from the game that I used to love to play. I hope that their anti-cheat has now improved.

19:42 love how you left the f bomb in 😂😂

So, all of these aren't the games that are risks, but actions taken outside of them. Utilizing account security, vetting sources... just like any other computer related concern in regards to security. Would have been nice to have actual games that fundamentally carried risks.

WoW is has an additional interesting security hole where one addon that you more or less need to use to play endgame content called WeakAuras has an option to import code strings into your game to load other people's created auras... the custom code strings often have so much extra added to them that its crazy how many people just blindly import them. I've ran into scripts that attempt to send your private data to random burner emails for example.

This happened like 15 years ago, but I was in an online game where the main focus was to just chat with people. You had avatars and a world to explore, but not really do much else than maybe role play in. I met someone that I chatted with, they wanted to know my microsoft live email, so we could continue chatting on live messenger. At that point, I had learned to be skeptic of giving my email address out to just anyone who asks, but I really wanted to keep chatting with that person. I literally went and created a new email account, just for the purpose of having one to give to strangers. Well, the person never reached out on live messenger, and to this day I thought nothing of it. Now, after watching this video, I believe they were just phishing for emails.