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Zeljka Zorz, Editor-in-Chief, Help Net Security
January 25, 2023
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RIOT GAMES BREACHED: HOW DID IT HAPPEN?



The hackers who breached Riot Games last week are asking for $10 million not to
leak the stolen source code for the company’s popular League of Legends online
game.



The company has also confirmed that source code for TFT (Teamfight Tactics) and
a legacy anti-cheat platform (Packman) were exfiltrated by the attackers, but
said they won’t be paying the ransom.


IT ALL STARTED WITH SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Last week, Riot Games said that systems in their development environment were
compromised via a social engineering attack and promised more details soon.

“We’re committed to transparency and will release a full report in the future
detailing the attackers’ techniques, the areas where Riot’s security controls
failed, and the steps we’re taking to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” the
company said this Tuesday.

The operator of malware repository vx-underground has professedly spoken to the
attacker, who said they got in by social engineering a Riot Games employee via
SMS, that they managed to pivot through the company network and escalate
privileges by social engineering a company director, but that they did not
deploy malware (e.g., ransomware) on company systems.





The attacker also said they have been unable to compromise the Domain Controller
and that Riot Games’ SOC team detected their activities in approximately 36
hours.


WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

Riot Games’ investigation into the breach is underway. It does seem like the
attacker did not employ ransomware, but focused on stealing source code to be
able to extort money from the company.

“While this attack disrupted our build environment and could cause issues in the
future, most importantly we remain confident that no player data or player
personal information was compromised,” Riot Games said.

“We’ve made a lot of progress since last week and we believe we’ll have things
repaired later in the week, which will allow us to remain on our regular patch
cadence going forward.”

DataBreaches.net reports that the stolen source code has apparently already
being offered for sale on a popular online forum.




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