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How Riot Games is Fighting the War Against Video Game Hackers
Tuesday May 6, 2025. 07:30 AM , from Slashdot
![]() Beyond technical measures, Riot deploys undercover operatives who have infiltrated cheat development communities for years. 'We've even gone as far as giving anti-cheat information to establish credibility,' Koskinas told TechCrunch, describing how they target even 'premium' cheats costing thousands of dollars. Riot faces increasingly sophisticated threats, including direct memory access attacks using specialized PCI Express hardware and screen reader cheats that use separate computers to analyze gameplay and control mouse movements. To combat repeat offenders, Vanguard fingerprints cheaters' hardware. Koskinas admits to deliberately slowing some enforcement: 'To keep cheating dumb, we ban slower.' The team also employs psychological warfare, publicly discrediting cheat developers and trolling known cheaters to undermine their credibility in gaming communities. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/0031241/how-riot-games-is-fighting-the-war-against-video-g...
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