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Smashing Security

Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned

Smashing Security

Graham Cluley

Tech News, News, Technology

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In episode 425 of "Smashing Security", Graham reveals how "Call of Duty: WWII" has been weaponised - allowing hackers to hijack your entire PC during online matches, thanks to ancient code and Microsoft’s Game Pass.

Meanwhile, Carole digs into a con targeting the recently incarcerated, with scammers impersonating bail bond agents to fleece desperate families.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

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0:00.0

It's going to remember how to code, like, and re-code from 2017.

0:08.1

Whoa!

0:08.3

It's be like, I can't understand this at all. Smashing Security, Episode 425, Call of Duty, from Pupy to Poland, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley.

0:31.1

Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 425. My name's Gran Cluelly.

0:35.8

And I'm Carol Terrio?

0:39.4

What's coming up on the show this week, Carol?

0:49.8

Well, first, let's thank this week's wonderful sponsors, Drata, Adaptive Security, and Vanta. It's their support that help us give you this show for free.

0:57.7

Now, coming up on today's show, Graham, what do you got? I'm going to be talking about how Call of Duty has gone from Battlefield to Bedlam.

1:03.2

Ooh, okay, and I'm talking about bad bales for Jay Lees.

1:07.0

All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smashing Security.

1:14.5

Now, chums, chums, and you particularly, Carole, I've got a question for you.

1:20.2

I'm picturing you, you know, after you've done a hard day's work, you've decided you're going to relax, you're going to slouch in your lazy boy in front of the TV and do a bit of

1:26.2

video gaming.

1:27.1

Isn't that your kind of thing?

1:28.4

No. No? No. I'm married to someone who I think would love to relax that way.

1:34.3

But your Yeti who you married, he's not the kind of chap who would play a game like Call of Duty World War II, is he?

1:43.0

No, but he does play something. I don't know what it's called but he's

1:47.1

like i think he's like really really up there like up where i know like like high up on the on the

1:53.9

score sheet like he mentioned it to someone else who knew about the game and they're like oh my god

1:58.1

like candy crush or something like that basically all that says is he spends a lot of time.

2:03.5

Well, I suspect he wouldn't have been playing Call of Duty World War II very much in recent days

2:09.2

because a lot of people have been having trouble logging into it.

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