A group of hackers who don't particularly like the PC anti-cheat service Punk Buster have launched an attack on Battlefield 3 players to make their point.
Hackers on the site Artificial Aiming have declared: "We are bringing back the unerring of punkbuster back for a 3rd season. We have selected ggc-stream as the target since they have the most streaming bf3 servers and makes it very easy to add fake bans,"
"In 2011 we hit them with a mass ban wave and now were are banning real players from battlelog while ggc-stream is totally unaware. We have framed 150+ bf3 players alone," they add, before receiving universal praise from other forum members on the site.
EA has issued a statement with a workaround for those affected: "We are aware that some Battlefield 3 players are experiencing connection issues with PunkBuster enabled servers. This problem is limited to a small subset of players on PC and will not impact players on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
"We are actively looking into the specifics of this issue and we are confident that we will have a permanent solution in place shortly. In the meantime, if a player's connectivity has been affected, we recommend that in the interim they join servers that are not running PunkBuster. There is a filter setting for this in the multiplayer server browser."
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You shlaaaag on 24 Jan '12 said:
What an utterly pathetic, childish and tw@tty thing to do. And all because they had their lunch money stolen at school. Utterly f**king tragic that some people feel that because they CAN'T CHEAT (because they're f**king s**t in the first place) that they can go around and ruin legit players quality of play and even their account. Makes me ashamed to be a PC gamer.
What a bunch of dispicable c**ts.
Mastermue on 24 Jan '12 said:
Oh yes. Congratulations hacker brats. Pick on the people who haven't done anything to deserve it. Effin' douche bags.
Why don't you do something useful instead and get a job or something...oh..I forgot..its a big scary world away from that keyboard. Somebody big and cool might pick on your spotty little hide!
Okay, I have no idea about this punkbuster malarkey since I don't own BF3 other than its supposed to keep the a-holes from bothering decent gamers (I guess)
Meh... hackers are just tits.
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TheLastDodo on 24 Jan '12 said:
Apparently, one of the moderators on the BF forums has been exposed as a hacker too.
Imaduck on 24 Jan '12 said:
In the course of just 1 year hackers have gone from:
. Plain dicks
to
. "Freedom fighters" of a sort
then on to
. Complete and utter c ... - redacted for Roy
You all know what I'm thinking though and I bet many of you can't think of any other word that sums up quite how low these people seem capable of stooping. To my mind, every word in the dictionary exists for a reason, the worst of the worst are reserved for the matching people, sadly most of those people seem to be connected to the interweb 
They get internet connections in prison these days?
Anyways, good job hackers, back where you belong I guess. On behalf of the world I offer up to you my two middle fingers.
B_G_G on 24 Jan '12 said:
I'm a bit dubious about the merits of hacktivists like Lulz or Anon, but this isn't the same thing.. this is cheaters and they are without a doubt 100% pathetic t**ts, no dubiousness whatsoever
KMakawa on 24 Jan '12 said:
It was a russian individual who was supposed to be within his own russian section but then decided to go rogue after a PB-Ban and delete contents, including my threads..
Ultimately though, the battlelog forums is a massive team of individuals.. so i didnt really know who he was but it got sorted quite quickish and EA have been woke up regarding it all, now starting to see fixes so that doesnt happen again.. same for this hacker crap too..
TheLastDodo on 24 Jan '12 said:
Oh so it's true? Was just a rumour when I read about it earlier.
KMakawa on 25 Jan '12 said:
Yup its true, remnants of the mass-sticky deletion still exists: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/fo ... 700624752/
It says "Del" now as a quick edit from another russian mod to replace the profanity that was there before it.
c3dpo on 25 Jan '12 said:
ZOMG, I cant have an aim bot anymoar, must destroy legit gamers time.
As stated above, truely pathetic!
Too easy to cheat on PC online IMO, though there's enough of it going down on the xbox nowadays it seems :/
If you suck at a game, simply play people much better than you to improve.
Heck, back in the day I made 1000s of cups of tea as I always lost to Mario Kart, then the day come where I won and could never be beaten, then my friends made us switch games lol.
Honorable (sp) gaming is a thing of the past, with these kids with hopes of being a pro "MLG" (sorry I hate it) gamer!
lonewolf2002 on 25 Jan '12 said:
Advised to play on non Punk-Buster servers, christ have they not got Punk-Buster right yet? Was always a problem as far as I remember in Q3 and other online shooters that used it. Seemed the cheats hackers could get round it all the time back then too.
rhyfel on 25 Jan '12 said:
these hackers must have a brain the size of a amoeba, when thay pull there childish stunts who are the people who suffer the most, its not the suits its the me's and you's who suffer, you would think thay would want public opinion on there side but all thay seem to do is p**s people off even more, there nothing more than cyber vandals with very small brains.
only_777 on 25 Jan '12 said:
Exploiters, not hackers. Let's not get the two things mixed up.
But in this case tossers.