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Anti-cheat in video games often need to use techniques commonly used by malware too. Unfortunately, they're not flagged as often.
by kgwxd 8y ago
Anti-cheat in video games often need to use techniques commonly used by malware too. Unfortunately, they're not flagged as often.
- 0942v8653 8y agoI'm not sure why this is being downvoted, as it's totally true. See the E-Sports Entertainment, LLC case: https://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/E-Sports_Complaint_Consent-Judgment.pdf https://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/E-Sports_Complaint_Consent... Relevant quotes: > Among the many monitoring activities conducted by ESEA, the ESEA Software was programmed to automatically capture screen shots of computers, track computer mouse movements, and monitor end-users' computer activities even when they were not logged onto ESEA servers. > ESEA did not place any restrictions on Hunczak and Thunberg's ability to access end-users' computers. > ESEA did not put policies and procedures in place to ensure its employees were not abusing their full administrative access privileges or inappropriately accessing end-users' computer files. > From at least April 12,2013 through April 30, 2013, the ESEA Botnet used the GPU of end-users' computers to mine for bitcoins without notice to and authorization from, or in excess of authorization from, end-users. (By "techniques commonly used by malware", I mean the data harvesting, screenshots, and remote access capabilities exploited by the defendants.)