[m2s] Gaming Clan

Recently, a Battlelog moderator was caught hacking. The event did not got unnoticed by the community and the moderator was demoted and had their stats reset. Hackers are once again in the spotlight. As PC gamers are already aware, PunkBuster has never actually been effective since being introduced in a BF1942 patch years ago. The service has followed the series and is often placed along side community run services such as PBBans and GGC-Stream. The latter, GGC has been the focus of the latest hacker attack.

anonpbspoofer said:

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.

Hackers are targeting GGC’s system to ban legitimate Battlefield 3 players. ArtificialAiming is the group behind the latest attacks, on their forums they claim to have banned over 150 legitimate BF3 accounts and that the GGC was totally unaware of what was taking place. Many posts on Battlelog have raised awareness. The blame doesn’t lay with PBBans or GGC though, GGC claims that the actual issue is with Evenbalance (PunkBuster) itself.

GGC said:

We have tried several times to contact Evenbalance and its supporters, even by using their Ticketsystem, to talk about this problem, but only had little success in doing so. Those bans have been detected fast by our system and were removed, so there was no bigger damage done. As said above, we know about this since 2008 and we relied on highest possible security measures, but as you might imagine, there is no 100% security, when the problem with PB is not fixed.
Neither PBBans or GGC are apart of DICE. The service is run on a server-to-server basis and is totally up to the server owner if they want to run a ban-stream service. The point of this service and others is to database known hackers, hackers trying to join a server running the stream will not be allowed to join. Hackers have overrun GGC in terms of Battlefield 3 with a simple command line, but it appears as GGC is taking the necessary steps to reverse the bans and has halted all bans since the 24th.

Just yesterday, an attack on PC Battlefield 3 players ensued when a group of hackers, determined to show DICE/EA the error of their ways, in regards to using Punkbuster as an anti-cheat/hack program, found a way to ban players from the Battlefield.
We have a bit of new info from Community Manager, Daniel Matros, as well as some basic suggestions you can follow to avoid being “fake-banned”.
One concerned fan asked Matros if it is safe to play on servers with PB (Punkbuster) or GGC-Stream enabled. Matros replied, “right now, I’d recommend playing on servers that aren’t streaming it until GGC are sorted out.” Currently, these bans are only possible on servers with these programs enabled. Matros also answered, “yes please,” to fans asking if they should update to the newest version of PB after the situation is dealt with.
Also, a notice on the front page of the Battelog was added reading: “The ‘Game disconnected: you were kicked by Punkbuster errors’ are being looked into right now.”