Until the video games have been done, people are willing to find ways to cheat. Hobbers have long dedicated themselves to searching for weaknesses in sports, often with the purpose of fraudulent development that they can share or sell. But since online competitive gaming has become a legitimate profession, hobby hacking has become a whole industry that aims to sell unfair advantage to those wishing to pay.
Developing and selling video game fraud Could be a profitable businessAnd video game developers have to improve their anti -chat teams in recent years, whose mission is to ban fraud, neutralize the software they used, as well as go behind the fraud developers. More companies Are taking To some extent Monthly Anti -chat system deployment steps that go on Kernel levelThis means that they have the most privileges in the operating system and they can potentially monitor everything on the machine that is playing the game.
Is one of the most prominent anti -sheet systems of the kernel level WingardDeveloped by riot sports, which makes Popular Title Like a multi -player online battlefield play League of Legends and Online First Person Shooter Appreciate.
Basically, Wangvers “forces show fraud for fraud.” Describes Helmet As a “fraudulent craftsman”, “was put to the ground for a sole purpose for banning fraud from online video games.”
Thanks to the anti -sheet team led by Wangverd and Koskynia, riots ban thousands of frauds Appreciate Every day, according to the joint chart with the Tech Crunch.
It seems that the riot efforts are working. By the early 2025, percentage of Appreciate “Classified” game – which means competitive match – there are frauds in it now less than 1 % globally, The company says.
In an interview to Tech Crunch, Koskinis described various strategies in detail that the anti -chat team uses for fraud and fraud in the riots: Taking advantage of security features in the Windows operating system, trying to stop playing with fingerprint hardware, to stop playing, and shutting them out.
‘We can just make them like a fool’.
Most of the efforts of Cosniaz and his team are from Wangord, which has deep access to the gamer’s computer. To eliminate frauds, Wangverd takes advantage of some of the pre -made security features in Windows.
First of all, Kosnis explained, anti -chat software “almost universes globally” implement some of the most important safety features of Windows, such as The trusted platform moduleA hardware -based security component, and Reserved boot. These two technologies check whether a computer has been modified or tampered with, such as malware or fraud, and if so, it prevents it from boiling. Then, Wangarid checks that all the computer’s hardware drivers, who allow the operating system to interact with the hardware, are the latest to identify additional hardware that can enable fraud. Finally, Wangarid prevents fraud from loading and implementing the code in memory of Dana.
“Basically, Microsoft and Hardware manufacturers have benefited from protecting the operating system, we use or implement them,” Cosnis told Tech Crunch. “We have to have a playground where we can play. We have to enforce a certain level of safety.”
But fighting frauds is not just about technology. It is also about understanding self -deception and how they work.
He said that Koskinis’ team has a “restoration arm”, whose primary responsibility is to get threats and catlags, which sometimes involves the acquisition of fraud. The team is partially fraudulently using the puppet identities, which has been equivalent to secret operations for many years to fraudulent and fraudulent developer communities.
“We have gone even to give anti -sheet information to establish credibility. We will do the maskid as it is. [reverse engineered]And explain how anti -fraud techniques work to show that we know things.
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Some fraudulent developers try to detect them by selling only a few consumers, mainly marketing their products at high -end, or “premium” fraud, as Kosnis called them. Koskin said these premium fraud could cost thousands of dollars, and only a handful of consumers are sold.
The fraudsters use this strategy to reduce the risk of selling a secret employee of riots, but also to be more careful about exposing consumers who expose clear fraud and fraud.
The developer said the developer was basically selling “could not be detected,” Koskin said. He said, one of the riot anti -sheet team’s “strongest weapons”, for example, by banning all his players, is defaming fraud developers, or Leaking screenshots Explaining that they are within their discord channels.
“We can just look like fools,” he said.
Kosnus and his team also have to be careful not to come down too hard. By letting a little fraud, within the reason, riots can reduce the game by better deception. “If we target every player every time, they will only change the fraud unless they find out what they do not know,” he said.
He added, “We are slowly banning the fraud, we are slowly banning.”
To prevent repeated criminals, Wangarid can “fingerprint” the hardware that uses a chatter – effectively identifies their device – so it is difficult for this player to get new fraud and continue to cheat.
In a more psychological strategy, Koskinias and his colleagues also troll fraudsters publicly Call themAmong other things, “a brainstorm pathogen,”, who “fails to get good in this video game”.
The toll box of the chatter
Thanks to all these techniques and strategies, most fraudsters can now be divided into almost two types. First, most of the fraudsters are made by people who are using cheap tools using “anger” that is easy to detect. According to Cosnis, the riot employees sarcastically called the fraud “download-a-b-b”.
He said, “A lot of fraudsters, if you think about it, they are a kind of young.” “Many of them have not yet grown up. The way they engage with sports is through cheating, and many of this behavior are like power when you do it.”
“They are about to return, they will be banned, and they are going to do this at the end of the next two to three years,” Kosnis said with a smile … and then, eventually he will kill puberty, and hopefully do so. “
The second type includes those who use premium fraud who are difficult to find out. Cosnis explained that these tools are known as “external” fraud, as they rely not only software but also on the use of original hardware.
A variety of external fraud depends on direct memory access (DMA) attack. DMA cheating players need to use special hardware-think-speed thinking PCI Express Cards – who eliminates all AppreciateMemory on a separate computer that can check the game on dedicated hardware outside the Wangord circle.
By doing so, a separate computer computer can be used to identify other players. Items in sports like walls, ammunition and weapons. And identify exactly where players and items are on the map. It may also include items that do not appear to the gamers. Then, using the firmware installed on the cards, the fraud makes a radar on the second screen that they can find rival players – even if they are invisible – to get unfair advantage.
According to Cosnis, a sophisticated version of this type of fraud depends on HDMI fusers, what is read by a separate computer on the main screen of the chatter. In this way, the fraudster does not have to look between the computer display so that his opponents are to see where their opponents are, let them focus on the display with which they are playing the game.
This technique allows the deception to see through the walls – what is called “Wall -hack” – And what is said to be a grant”Additional sensory impression“Mainly superpower within the game.
“I think today we find out the majority of it, but this is a kind of repetition,” said Koskin.
Then there is a screen reader fraud, where the computer’s HDMI output is sent to another computer that detects and ranked what is in the game display, such as the head of the opposing player. The second computer then sends the instruction to the mini -mini computer to control the robotics, for example, which is connected to the chatter mouse and automatically targets the player with other players.Boot. As Koskin said, “Missbor is running through a machine, mainly for all intentions and purposes.”
If the fraud performs well, it may be difficult to find out, but Koskin said that in the long run, the fraud “does not look like a human player” because they are making their rivals the right purpose and shooting.
“You have to make a human [the cheat] “And once you get there, you are not really cheating so much that most consumers do not make it worth it,” Cosnis said.
Nevertheless, this technique is popular, Koskin confessed. The negative aspect is that it requires a potentially expensive second PC that is happening on the screen with a sharp graphics processor and returned the instructions.
The future of fraud
Koskinis says he often worries about the use of AI for screen rating, to know that human beings look like inputs, and how to reproduce them.
“It’s already here,” he said. “Especially I Appreciate With these bright sketches, you can do it with just an algorithm […] You can really say caution that if the percentage of this box is quite purple, press the key. For the context, there are roles in the Valvers Separated and clear color schemes.
Despite the dangers of security and privacy -related anti -technology, there is access to the level of kernel, for the least of the riots, its anti -chat engine has no plans to get away from its point of view. Otherwise, according to Coschen, it will be very easy for the fraudsters to use kernels.
Generally, Koskinas is trying to be more transparent about the anti -chat efforts, including posts Several Blog Posts How the company follows the fraudsters, and talks to journalists. “The idea is because the riots are the most invasive anti -chat to people all the time,” he said, “players deserve to know how the company is using this privilege.
“I feel the best thing I feel as we can access to this level and to live around, as much transparent about its blurring,” said Coscinia.
He said, “We are not telling you what is under the hood, but we will tell you almost Almost something else.”