Ubisoft’s Uplay DRM could potentially leave your PC vulnerable to attacks

DRM (digital rights management) is a very touchy subject and has made a lot of gamers that legitimately buy games annoyed and Ubisoft is one of the companies right in the middle of it.

According to Geek, there is now a reason for gamers to feel more that annoyed about Ubisoft’s Uplay DRM system, it includes a rootkit and could potentially access your PC files without your consent.

It was discovered by Google information security engineer Tavis Ormandy when he installed Assassin’s Creed: Revelations on his PC. He noticed Uplay installed a web browser plug-in that could potentially allow any website to gain access to the PC through a backdoor and take control.

There are 21 games that utilises the Uplay system:

• Assassin’s Creed II
• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
• Assassin’s Creed: Project Legacy
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations
• Assassin’s Creed III
• Beowulf: The Game
• Brothers in Arms: Furious 4
• Call of Juarez: The Cartel
• Driver: San Francisco
• Heroes of Might and Magic VI
• Just Dance 3
• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
• Pure Football
• R.U.S.E.
• Shaun White Skateboarding
• Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic
• The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
• Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
• Your Shape: Fitness Evolved

Ubisoft has yet to respond to these claims, we will report it as soon as we hear anything.