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Anticheat Update Tracking

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124 points not-matthias | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 21:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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nulld3v ◴[30 Jun 25 03:24 UTC] No.44419002[source]▶
Very nice walk-through on the reverse engineering process.

Also, they linked this post that made my jaw drop: https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/667333-...

Apparantly BattleEye anti-cheat had an exploit where hackers could permanently ban any player they wanted. BattleEye allowed anybody to log in as a "game server" so hackers simply booted up a fake server, told BattleEye that "player X has logged in and is doing a bunch of suspicious stuff" and then player X's account was no more...

I'm sorry, why do we trust these guys again?

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1. AHTERIX5000 ◴[30 Jun 25 09:17 UTC] No.44421138[source]▶
That's scary. I have an old Steam account with tons of games and already got banned once due to a bug in anti-cheat software and for a while my whole account was marked with a cheater tag.

The bug was so widespread that developers eventually removed bans but I'm sure something similar could happen where problem goes undetected and it would be really hard to try to convince developers to lift a ban.