If I was a hacker, I would be spending most of my effort attacking anticheats. Installing spyware on people’s computer to prevent cheating is wrong. They should be doing what devs did before anticheat was invented - server side moderation.
gamers aren’t usually a prime target, except for cryptominers…
Don’t many gamers often have a lot of money, considering those huge libraries of games as well as those very expensive PCs, I feel like it would make sense to target them, at the very least for the possibility of commandeering and selling their accounts, plus the ones who download this malware by opting to play games with Anti-cheats and bullying their friends who are unwilling or on the fence into using it, it seems like they would be easy targets.
If I was a hacker, I would be spending most of my effort attacking anticheats. Installing spyware on people’s computer to prevent cheating is wrong. They should be doing what devs did before anticheat was invented - server side moderation.
gamers aren’t usually a prime target, except for cryptominers…
an anticheat based cryptominer worm would be pretty terrible, now that i think about it…
Don’t many gamers often have a lot of money, considering those huge libraries of games as well as those very expensive PCs, I feel like it would make sense to target them, at the very least for the possibility of commandeering and selling their accounts, plus the ones who download this malware by opting to play games with Anti-cheats and bullying their friends who are unwilling or on the fence into using it, it seems like they would be easy targets.
I dunno about non-driver anti-cheats like EAC but Genshin Impact’s kernel-level anti-cheat has been used to aid ransomware. Driver-level anti-cheat is certainly malware, that has been settled since Sony-BMG.