Protecting the big launch week could pay for itself in security fees.
How would you ever know?
It’s the reason Denuvo is still in business. Companies know it gets cracked, but they buy it to protect the sales right after release.
Denuvo protected games are getting cracked on average after 74 days
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Re: Denuvo protected games are getting cracked on average after 74 days
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember it's not security, but obfuscation. Many of these systems are just continuations of anti cracking schemes that go back to the 80s, littering the checks for piracy throughout the software in otherwise unrelated function calls and causing them to be tripped in situations that aren't necessarily the initial bring up. Modern software like this is more akin to malware than license checks. Many of them will try to…
Do you have any recommended resources regarding the mardware memory editing devices you mentioned? Haven't actually heard of those mentioned before, at least not that commonly
The cheats make use of PCIe's ability to perform DMA. One example I found was https://github.com/EngineOwningSoftware/pcileech-webradar.
Re: Denuvo protected games are getting cracked on average after 74 days
#13How does one go about cracking denuvo? I haven't actually tried before and not much of a gamer, but for some of the regular software I've pretty much been able to just RE it, find the location where the checks are made, and patch it. Then again I haven't really tried with more secure software such as Microsoft office products, photoshop etc.
Iirc Denuvo's gimmick is that it's integration is tangled with the gameplay code (maybe encrypting some of it) so it's not simply a matter of patching out an if check.