New World players may want to turn off global text chat for a while. An exploit in New World's chat system allows some users to send messages containing disruptive images and, in some cases, malicious code that will crash the game.
First noticed sometime yesterday, the earliest uses of the chat exploit seemed harmless—a blown-up picture of New World's sausage art here or a raw chicken there. It didn't take long for players to find more nefarious uses for the vulnerability. As seen in Josh Strife
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