Game Pirates Beat Denuvo with Hypervisor Bypasses — Irdeto Promises Countermeasure

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Hypervisor-based bypasses can ‘crack’ Denuvo-protected games on the day of release, marking a fundamental shift in the piracy landscape.

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You can never, ever trust the client. Client side anticheat is wasteful security theater.

Get your “anticheat” code off my cpu and implement actual security on your servers.

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In this case it’s discussing DRM, not anti-cheat.

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Its still the wild west of this invention. Theres a possibility that trying this will brick your PC.

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Would it actually brick it? It seems like at worst it would be an os reinstall

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I feel like denuvo is gonna start trying to release CPU microcode some day. Then we can get true bricking.

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It seems like at worst it would be an os reinstall

It depends. Some malware would not be removed by an OS reinstall.

A few examples are mentioned here:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/unkillable-uefi-malware-bypassing-secure-boot-enabled-by-unpatchable-windows-flaw/

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As I understand it, it also leaves your system wide open to malware to just come right in. I’ve seen statements that it should only be used during a game session to minimize risk, but that’s still a risk, and you know some people won’t do that.

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On the one hand I’ve already trusted fitgirl with my computer and therefore my life, on the other hypervisor seems sketch even from a trusted source.

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Fitgirl is a repacker, not a cracker. When you trust a cracked game, you’re not trusting her.

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No, you trust whoever you got it from. Either to not tamper with the game, or ensure it wasn’t malware to begin with.

Edit: hm, actually, i guess that means I’ve only trusted fitgirl with my computer and therefore my life a handful of times.

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I guess that is true to the extent that she isn’t knowingly sharing infected files. And her track record IS stellar.

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Huh, I never made the connection that denuvo is from Irdeto, who also provide one of the widely used pay-TV DRM schemes

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There’s no such thing as a coincidence. - William Knight

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The article mentions that there are performance penalties to running hypervisor cracks in a VM with GPU passthrough, but if you’re dual-booting barebones Arch (just enough to get a VM running), is there really a significant performance loss?

And once you have that set up on a separate boot, then it should be safe and fairly efficient to set up a bunch of these hypervisor cracks, I’d expect.

I don’t care enough or have time to tinker with this myself, but that sounds like a more fun project than actually playing one of these AAA games, lol.

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also, probably not a thing vast majority of gamers have the ability to set-up or maintain.

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Ya, too much work to play that list of games.

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Game Pirates Beat Denuvo…

“Oh hell yeah!”

… with Hypervisor

“Aaaand I’m out.”

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I’m not messing with any of these - seems far too much hassle.

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They don’t address the elephant in the room (voices38). Does that mean piracy won once again?

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Holy fuck, who is dealing with this shit just to steal a game.

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If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing

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So AI companies aren’t stealing from artists training on content?

Just own it lol

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And who the fuck said they aren’t??? What the hell kind of strawman is that? What does it even have to do with any of this?

AI companies aren’t pirating art, they’re using publicly available art commercially without a license which is definitely some sort of contravention though I’m not sure what exactly it is.

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if you create something, is it not yours?

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