Software Security Hackers are using Genshin Impact's anti-cheat software in ransomware to kill antivirus processes Bad actors are already actively exploiting vulnerability in 'mhyprot2.sys' driver By Cal Jeffrey, August 26, 2022, 4:22 PM
Gaming Call of Duty rolls out additional mitigations to frustrate cheaters Mitigations help legitimate players take care of business themselves By Shawn Knight, June 20, 2022, 11:09 AM 7 comments
Gaming This Gran Turismo 7 trick can earn you up to 650,000 in-game credits per hour You don't even have to be present, just set it up, and let it run By Cal Jeffrey, March 22, 2022, 4:18 PM
Gaming Security Fake Valorant cheats promoted on YouTube carry RedLine malware Cheaters get a spoonful of karmic justice By Adrian Potoroaca, March 14, 2022, 10:22 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Why are Xbox players still being forced into crossplay with PC gamers? Most of PlayStation's competitive cross-platform games have an option to turn off crossplay By Cal Jeffrey, January 11, 2022, 2:14 PM 23 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Developers say Halo Infinite cheaters were expected and will be dealt with No word on how long before 343 takes 'action on bad actors' By Cal Jeffrey, December 1, 2021, 1:47 PM 7 comments
Gaming Microsoft Halo Infinite console players want cross-play turned off as rampant cheating is spoiling multiplayer mode Cheat providers have even allegedly figured out how to steal paid cosmetics By Cal Jeffrey, November 29, 2021, 3:16 PM 8 comments
Gaming Call of Duty cheaters face being permabanned from every current and future game in the series Does the punishment fit the crime? By Rob Thubron, November 16, 2021, 8:55 AM 35 comments
Gaming Amazon shuts down New World's 'economy controls' to prevent a gold duplication glitch Threatens to drop the ban hammer on abusers of the exploit By Cal Jeffrey, November 3, 2021, 6:06 AM 20 comments
Gaming Call of Duty's upcoming Kernel-level anti-cheat driver already leaked People are already working to reverse-engineer it By Daniel Sims, October 14, 2021, 5:03 PM 14 comments
Gaming Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone will receive kernel-level anti-cheat tech this year It has been dubbed 'RICOCHET' By Cohen Coberly, October 13, 2021, 3:31 PM 12 comments
Gaming Security Valorant's anti-cheat system requires TPM 2.0 and secure boot on Windows 11 A new step for anti-cheat? By Daniel Sims, September 7, 2021, 1:18 PM 22 comments
Software Gaming New machine learning-based cheating may threaten competitive play Your console isn't a safe place for legit gaming anymore By Joao Silva, July 8, 2021, 11:36 AM 10 comments
Tech Culture Gaming Police and Tencent collaborate to seize "world's biggest" video game cheating operation Behind every great fortune lies a great crime By Joao Silva, March 31, 2021, 11:19 AM 47 comments
Tech Culture Virtual cycling championship bans two riders for cheating A new form of competing, a new form of cheating By Rob Thubron, February 5, 2021, 5:16 AM 12 comments
Gaming Cheat-maker sorry for CoD players' "pain" after Activision legal threat We're very sorry we got caught By Rob Thubron, August 31, 2020, 9:16 AM 11 comments
Gaming Security Doom Eternal gets review-bombed following kernel mode anti-cheat update (Updated) Potentially opening a portal for hell's armies in Ring 0 By Humza Aamir, May 18, 2020, 9:49 AM 12 comments
Gaming Billy Mitchell's libel case over Donkey Kong cheating scandal set for July Claims Twin Galaxies implicitly called him a 'cheater' By Cal Jeffrey, May 5, 2020, 7:17 AM
Gaming Security Users can now turn off Valorant's anti-cheat software However, it puts the computer in an 'untrusted state' and the game will not run until OS is rebooted By Cal Jeffrey, April 28, 2020, 12:28 PM 15 comments
Gaming Security Valorant's anti-cheat software loads kernel-based driver on system boot Riot Games says it's the only way to detect cheat software that uses Ring 0 By Cal Jeffrey, April 15, 2020, 2:42 PM 44 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Valve is reportedly slapping misbehaving DOTA 2 players with 19-year bans Will DOTA 2 still be around in two decades? By Cohen Coberly, September 20, 2019, 6:33 AM
Mobile Apple Apple adjusts App Store search algorithm after report found its apps ranked first for hundreds of search terms The company says it's not corrected but "improved" By Adrian Potoroaca, September 10, 2019, 7:27 AM
Tech Culture Mobile Top chess grandmaster admits he cheated in tournament by using smartphone He was already under suspicion By Rob Thubron, July 15, 2019, 9:13 AM 11 comments
Gaming Ubisoft bans user-created XP-farming quests in Assassin's Creed Odyssey It's a single-player game -- who cares if someone wants to max out their character in a few minutes? By Cal Jeffrey, July 12, 2019, 4:03 PM 11 comments
Gaming Respawn has banned 770,000 Apex Legends cheaters since launch Cheaters gonna cheat By Cal Jeffrey, May 3, 2019, 1:46 PM 11 comments