By Ravie Lakshmanan
An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game that could have been exploited to establish backdoor access to players' systems.
The modes exploited aΒ high-severity flawΒ in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked asΒ CVE-2021-38003Β (CVSS score: 8.8), which wasΒ exploited as a zero-dayΒ and addressed by Google in October 2021.
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