Denuvo, the copy protection “inviolable”, was broken by hackers – 01net.com

Game publishers may tremble Denuvo, the most serious of anti-piracy protection, has fallen in the last few hours. This complex tool used to protect prestigious games (Doom, Rise of The Tomb Raider, Fifa 16 …) until now the bane of pirate games. So much so that the head of a team of crackers had said earlier this year that with such technology, games piracy could well become impossible a few times.

Las! This weekend, Denuvo experienced two setbacks. The first lasted only a few hours, but marked the spirits. A Bulgarian hacker of 19 years, known under the pseudonym Voksi, has found a way to bypass Denuvo. His “crack,” he posted on Reddit, was based on a flaw in the Steam platform, to which it was believed that the player launched a free demo of Doom … so that it actually played a pirated play. After finding this trick to Doom , he applied to other games. Throughout the weekend, some 600,000 pirates were able to play without paying Rise of the Tomb Raider , Just Cause 3 or at the recent Abzu … All Renuvo protected.

According to statistics provided by Voksi, 650,000 people have used this crack during the weekend of 7 and 8 August. But the fault was remedied early in the week by Denuvo

A first set Denuvo cracked

But this did not mark the end of troubles for the Austrian company, far from it. Much more serious for game publishers, it seems that Rise of The Tomb Raider, a protected title Denuvo, was finally hacked. It is at this moment widely shared on the Internet. It is the work of a group known as the Conspir4cy (CPY). These hackers have released a real “crack” for the game, which not only lets you play the base, but also to his three DLC …

And that perhaps is only the beginning. Hackers believe that if Tomb Raider has been cracked, it’s only a matter of days so that others now follow. Voksi himself commented the feat of CPY, explaining that the cracker next game Denuvo take their “days or weeks.”

Still Denuvo will obviously update its system of protection for the next big releases. Otherwise, publishers may well turn away from its costly solution. The game of cat and mouse will then flare.

The whole affair was summed up by a brilliant Gif:

Sources:
TorrentFreak and Reddit