Jack Rhysider MENTIONS Game Genie
Jack cites Game Genie as an early example of video-game cheating tools.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Haven’t you heard about Game Genie?”
Episode
19 April 2022 Official episode · Official transcript
cybercrime
The episode examines the commercial video-game cheat industry, anti-cheat operations, malware disguised as cheats, attacks between cheat developers and game studios, and legal action against cheat sellers.
Topics: Commercial subscription-based game cheats, Anti-cheat engines and behavioral detection, Game-state, command, and memory manipulation, Exploit and glitch abuse, Input automation, Cheat loaders and license keys, Machine identification and license binding, Malware and spyware distributed as game cheats, Credential and application-data theft, Reverse engineering of acquired cheats, Bug bounty programs for cheat discovery, Operational security and isolated analysis networks, DDoS attacks against cheat-selling websites, Doxxing, harassment, and attempted account compromise, Stream-proof cheating, Cheating in competitive tournaments, Legal enforcement and intellectual-property litigation against cheat developers
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Jack Rhysider MENTIONS Game Genie
Jack cites Game Genie as an early example of video-game cheating tools.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Haven’t you heard about Game Genie?”
Jack Rhysider MENTIONS Sim City
Jack says the first hack he performed involved manipulating a Sim City save-game file.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“the first hack I ever did was manipulating the Save Game file on Sim City”
Eugene Harton MEMBER_OF Techland
Eugene says he currently works on Dying Light 2 at Techland.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“I currently work on a game called Dying Light 2 at Techland”
Eugene Harton MEMBER_OF Bohemia Interactive
Eugene says he previously worked at Bohemia Interactive on DayZ.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“before that I worked at Bohemia Interactive on a game called DayZ”
Eugene describes BattlEye as the protective anti-cheat agent used with DayZ.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“Bastian Suter was the creator of BattlEye, was the – which was the kind of agent we were using to protect the game”
BattlEye DEVELOPED_BY Bastian Suter
Eugene identifies Bastian Suter as the creator of BattlEye.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“Bastian Suter was the creator of BattlEye”
Eugene Harton USES bug bounty program
Eugene says his team implemented a bug bounty program as part of its effort to acquire cheats.
Explicit Confidence 91% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“the first thing that we need to kinda implement is kind of a bug bounty program and the ability to buy cheats”
Eugene Harton USES Reverse engineering
Eugene describes using a reverse-engineer to determine how acquired cheats broke the game.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“use also our own reverse-engineer to figure out how they are breaking the game”
Eugene Harton USES PayPal
Eugene says his team bought public cheats using PayPal money deposited by the company.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“they would buy it through PayPal money which was deposited by the company”
Eugene Harton USES Remote Desktop
Jack says game developers use Remote Desktop so others can analyze cheats that are bound to one machine.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“game developers have to set up Remote Desktop so other people can come into that machine and analyze it”
cheat loader USES machine binding
The cheat loader's license becomes tied to the machine ID on which it is installed, preventing sharing with other machines.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“the key becomes tied to that machine ID”
Jack reports that AimKit, presented as a game cheat, was actually malware that stole user information.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“one example of a game cheat that was actually malware stealing user information”
According to user reports described by Jack, the AimKit loader took Discord logins and those accounts were subsequently banned.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“the loader was not just providing a cheat, but also grabbing a few things off that computer that it was installed on and sending it back to the devs at AimKit, such as Discord logins”
AimKit USES malware disguised as game cheat
AimKit is described as malware disguised and distributed as a game cheat.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“a game cheat that was actually malware stealing user information”
PokeGo++ lawsuit INVOLVES PokeGo++
The PokeGo++ lawsuit concerned a cheat that allowed users to move to another location without leaving home.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“there was a cheat going around for Pokemon Go, and this cheat was called PokeGo++”
MizuSoft legal action INVOLVES MizuSoft
The MizuSoft legal action concerned the MizuSoft website, which sold game cheats for Ubisoft games.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“he was running a website called MizuSoft, selling game cheats for Ubisoft”
MizuSoft legal action INVOLVES Ubisoft
Ubisoft identified and sued the operator of MizuSoft, seeking removal of the site and compensation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Ubisoft was able to identify this young man and sue him”
Chinese game-cheat bust INVOLVES Tencent
The Chinese game-cheat bust involved Tencent games and cooperation between Tencent and Chinese police, according to a BBC report cited by Jack.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Tencent and the Chinese police worked together to arrest the crew responsible for making cheats for Tencent games”
AimJunkies ASSOCIATED_WITH Destiny
AimJunkies is described as a site selling cheats for Destiny.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“this site was selling cheats for the game Destiny”
Game Developers Conference ASSOCIATED_WITH Eugene Harton
Eugene gave a presentation about cheaters at the Game Developers Conference and was targeted by members of the cheat community in connection with it.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Eugene says he was going to give a talk about cheaters at GDC, the Game Developers Conference”
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