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As long as there is no video game, there are people who want to find the ways to deceive. Hobbyists have long dedicated to finding the vulnerabilities in games, often in the games, often to share or sell fraudsters. However, the online competitive game became a legitimate profession, Hobby Hack, entered a whole industry that aims to sell to those who want to pay an unfair advantage.
Video to develop and sell game scammers There may be a profitable businessAnd in recent years, there are video game developers to ban the mission cheats, neutralizing the program they use, as well as cheats, as well as cheats who have been following the mission. More companies they get somewhat controversial Stepping of the placement of working fraud system kernelThe meaning of the meaning is the highest privileges in the work system and can potentially watch everything in the machine where the game works.
One of the most prominent kernel-level anti-fraud system Avant-gardeDeveloped by agile games popular title Multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends and Online first person shooter Value.
In fact, Vanguard “attracts the forces to be seen,” said Phillip Koskinas, cheat on Riot describes herself As a “crammed artist” “put this world for a single goal to deceive online video games.”
Thanks to the Cheat team led by Vanguard and Koskinas, Riot bans thousands of cheats Value Each day, according to a schedule shared with TechCrunch.
Riot’s efforts don’t work. At the beginning of 2025, the percentage Value “Ranked” games – means competitive games – cheats are now less than 1% on a global scale, The company says.
In an interview with the TechCrunch, Koskinas, Riot’s scammers and various strategies used by fraudulent developers, leak fraudsters, cheating fraudsters and psychological games in psychological games for leaking cheaters.
‘We can just like them to fools’
Most of Koskinas and team stems from Vanguard, which has a deepest level to a player computer. To remove scammers, Vanguard has already benefited from some security features installed in Windows.
First, Koskinas explained, a cheat program “Almost Universal” provides the most important security features of some Windows Valid Platform Modulea hardware-based security component and Safe pull. These two technologies prevent a computer changed or modified, for example, it is changed by a harmful program or if you have a cheater and if it is opened. Then, the Vanguard checks to be so far to determine all the drivers of the computer that allows you to communicate with the operating system hardware. Finally, Vanguard refers to download and execute the code in the Kernel’s memory.
“Basically, we use Microsoft and hardware manufacturers to protect the operating system, we use or apply all the security features, we use or apply,” said Koskinas Techcrunch. “We must have a playground we can play. We must apply a certain level of security.”
But the fight against scammers is not just about technology; It is also about understanding the cheaters themselves and how they work.
Koskinas team is “intelligence weapon” and catalog threats and catalogs are threats, which sometimes covers cheaters. The team takes partial holes using the personalities of the cheat and fraudulent communities using the Puppet and Puppy Personality, and using the personal transactions.
“We went up to the anti-cheater information to create insecurity. It is as if we will be something [reverse engineered]And explain how an anti-cheater technique works our work, “Koskinas said.
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Some fraudulent developers try to remain undefined as they sell their products to just a few clients and calls their products as a high-level or “premium” cheats, Koskinas. These premium cheats can cost thousands of dollars and sold only a handful of customers, Koskinas said.
Fraudsters use this strategy to reduce the risk of selling a riot from this strategy, but also use it for customers who will be more careful to obvious and secretion of cheats.
These developers are essentially selling “the reputation of not detected.” Koskartan. Riot said the “strongest weapons” of the cheat team “the strongest weapons”, for example, forbid all players or Leakage screenshots They indicate that they are in their controversial channels.
“We can look like them just like a fool,” he said.
Koskinas and his team should be careful not to get too heavy. By allowing a little cheating, Riot players can slow down from acquiring a better cheater. “Every time we hit each player, they will simply change the cheats until they find the detected,” he said.
“We are slowly forbid to deceive dumb.”
To stop repeated criminals, the device that uses a cheater, a cheat – can make a new cheater and can make a fingerprint “device that effectively determines its devices to continue deceit.
Troll scammers in more psychological strategies, Koskinas and colleagues Calls themAmong other things, “this video is not able to get good in the game”, “brainless pathogen”.
Cheat toolbox
Thanks to all these techniques and strategies, most scams can already divide into two categories. The first is made by those who represent the most fraudsters, use cheap means that are easy to detect. Rapid workers, Koskinas, called “download-a-ban” to these cheats, call-a-ban. ”
“Many cheats, if you think about it, they are a kind of young man.” “Many of them have grown yet. It’s like the power you feel like that they are busy with games.”
“We intend to go back, they will be banned and will finally live every weekend every weekend for the next two to three years, and I hope we will do it,” Koskinas said.
The second category consists of several people who use the reward scammers that are difficult to detect. These tools are known as “external” cheaters, Koskinas explains because they only depend on the use of the actual apparatus.
An external cheater relys on a sort of direct memory entry (DMA) attack. DMA Cheats requires players to use a specialized apparatus – think at high speed PCI Express cards – exfoliates all ValueWithout Vanguard’s Purview, memory is a special computer that can explore the game on a special device.
By doing so, the cheater can also be used to identify other players on the computer; Game objects such as walls, ammunition and weapons; and clearly identify where players and items are on the map. This can cover the invisible objects for players. Then, using the currency installed on the cards, the cheat creates a radar that will be able to look at the opponent’s players on the second screen – to gain an unfair advantage.
According to Koskinas, a more advanced version of this type of fraud, who rely on HDMI Fusers, re-read the readings of the separate computer’s sub-screen, which is on the main screen of the cheater. In this way, the cheater should not appear on computer screens to see where their opponents are, and allow you to focus on the screen they play.
These methods allow the cheat to get acquainted with the walls – “stamp“- and give those who refer to”Sensitive feeling“Super forces mostly inside the game.
“I think we detect the majority of today, but it is an iterative,” Koskinas said.
Then a computer HDMI speech has screen reading scammers sent to a second computer that discovers the ones on the screen and classifying those on the screen of the game as the head of an opponent. The second computer, for example, the player who joined the cheat mouse and the player, which is automatically known to the player, sends an instruction on a Arduino mini-computer that allows other players to play “boot“As Koskinas put,” mainly managed by a machine for mouse, all intents and purposes. “
If Cheat performs well, it can be difficult to detect, but Koskinas has long been the cheater, “he doesn’t look like a human player because they are directed to their opponents.
“You have to be human [the cheat] To a degree that a person can do is useless, “said Koskinas.” And once you are there, you don’t really cheat to give value to most users. “
After that, this technique is popular, Koskinas accepts. The industry requires a potentially expensive second PC from a fast graphics processor to quickly classify what happens on the screen and send back the instructions.
The future of deception
Koskinas says that the AI is often worried about the use of AI’s AI to learn what the entrance of man’s entrance looks like.
“It’s already here.” “Especially inside Value These bright contours can be almost an algorithm with just an algorithm […] You can actually say that the percentage of this box is quite purple, you can say that the fire button. “ For context, there are characters in the description Different and bright color schemes.
Despite the security and privacy risks associated with anti-brush technology that gained kernel level input, flexible, at least there are no plans to move away from the approach of the smoothing engine. Otherwise, according to Koskinas, the scammers will facilitate the use of kernel abuse.
In general, Koskinas is trying to be more transparent about the riot efforts, including publishing a few macal writing It is about how the company is talking about after cheats, as well as talking to journalists. He said that, he is that Riot deserves to know how to use this privilege of this privilege.
“So the best thing we can do is if we can do this in and around it is transparent about opacity, as we can,” Koskinas.
“We do not tell you the ones under the hood, but we will say almost anything else,” he said.
