A Week Later, Rainbow Six Siege Is Apparently Under Attack Again, This Time with Brainrot

Players of Rainbow Six Siege are dealing with what looks like another security meltdown.

According to Ubisoft’s Service Status page for Rainbow Six Siege, connectivity is degraded across all platforms, and there are outages noted for authentication, the in-game store, and for matchmaking. 

Players on social media report being flooded with notifications saying things like, “We wanted to let you know that 67676767 of your reports led to sanctions,” or that they were suspended for “67 days due to Harassment.” In other cases, users were posting notifications about simply being booted from the game with no mention of the numbers 6 or 7 (except the “Six” in Rainbow Six).

So while there’s currently no certainty about the nature of this attack—if it is an attack—or the identity of these apparent perpetrators, it’s probably safe to say that someone with brainrot is messing around inside the guts of the game.

As of this writing, the situation was not quite as bad as it was about a week ago on December 27 and 28, when Ubisoft completely pulled the plug on the game after attackers took over and raised hell. Still, a second round of outages coming only a week after the first is far from optimal.

Around the time the game was brought back online on December 28, after resolving the previous problem, Ubisoft’s statement on X said “Investigations and corrections will continue over the next two weeks.” Apparently their investigation didn’t uncover every possible vulnerability, because here they are again.

Rainbow Six seems to primarily post PR updates on X, and as of this writing, no statement about these issues had been posted by the accounts for Rainbow Six or Ubisoft. Gizmodo reached out to the company to receive information about the nature of these issues and whether the game is in fact undergoing another attack, and to find out what actions the company may be taking to remedy the situation. We will update if we hear back.