Minecraft server admins better lock up their Echo Shards because this newsroom is about to get deep and dark. According to the Minecraft Malware Prevention Alliance (MMPA)—yep, that's a thing—users have spotted a vulnerability affecting a whole lot of Minecraft servers, citing many popular mods able to be exploited by hackers looking to take over players' machines.
"This vulnerability is well known in the Java community, and has been fixed before in other mods," the MMPA blog post notes (via Tom's Hardware). It's not a new thing, then. Though the post makes it clear that "none have been of this scale in the Minecraft community."
