Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats

mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Linux Gaming@lemmy.ml – 310 points –
Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats
youtube.com
85

You are viewing a single comment

As mentioned, cheaters can already bypass it, so what's the point? As for security, by definition it infects your whole system and has access to everything. That's what kernel-level is.

By definition a driver is not an infection.

Actually, a driver can be an infection, just like any other program can be malicious. But I do agree that from a system access standpoint, running the Vanguard kernel driver is not much different than using kernel-level EAC/BattleEye. Except the annoying starting at boot part.

A program without elevated privileges already has access to almost all important things on your computer anyway. Luckily flatpak supports sandboxing which protects from exploits in online games.

7 more...