Episode
115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
41:27
Published: Tue Apr 19 2022
Description
Some video game players buy cheats to win. Let’s take a look at this game cheating industry to see who the players are. Sponsors Support for this show comes from Axonius. Securing assets — whether managed, unmanaged, ephemeral, or in the cloud — is a tricky task. The Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action. Axonius gives IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks. Visit axonius.com/darknet to learn more and try it free. Support for this podcast comes from Cybereason. Cybereason reverses the attacker’s advantage and puts the power back in the defender’s hands. End cyber attacks. From endpoints to everywhere. Learn more at Cybereason.com/darknet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapters
A story about a person playing a farming game and utilizing time manipulation, followed by a brief ad for cloud compliance software DRADA.
00:00 - 03:28 (03:28)
Summary
A story about a person playing a farming game and utilizing time manipulation, followed by a brief ad for cloud compliance software DRADA.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
The host discusses the world of gaming cheats and exploits, delving into the methods used by developers, distributors, admins, and players to gain an unfair advantage in video games.
03:28 - 08:54 (05:25)
Summary
The host discusses the world of gaming cheats and exploits, delving into the methods used by developers, distributors, admins, and players to gain an unfair advantage in video games. Despite the constant patching and updates from game developers, cheats and exploits continue to be developed and sold through resellers.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
Techniques such as analyzing a player's game, reporting exploits, and integrating anti-cheating software are used to identify and ban cheaters from online games.
08:54 - 15:36 (06:41)
Summary
Techniques such as analyzing a player's game, reporting exploits, and integrating anti-cheating software are used to identify and ban cheaters from online games.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
A reverse engineer and community manager discussed their experience in buying cheats and impersonating clients looking for cheats in both public and private spaces.
15:36 - 22:04 (06:27)
Summary
A reverse engineer and community manager discussed their experience in buying cheats and impersonating clients looking for cheats in both public and private spaces. Game developers often try to ruin the cheating industry, which leads to cheat developers scrambling to create new cheats.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
Cheat developers could be buying each other's cheats and exposing them to game developers to ruin the business for their competitors.
22:04 - 28:34 (06:29)
Summary
Cheat developers could be buying each other's cheats and exposing them to game developers to ruin the business for their competitors. Game developers might have to pose as cheaters or work with double agents to get their hands on cheats to make their games better.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
The speaker discusses how social media harassment affected their life, including strange and disturbing messages sent to family members and the slow process of being doxxed.
28:34 - 33:08 (04:34)
Summary
The speaker discusses how social media harassment affected their life, including strange and disturbing messages sent to family members and the slow process of being doxxed.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
Ubisoft is suing a website that sold cheats for the game Destiny for monetary compensation and removal of the website.
33:08 - 37:26 (04:17)
Summary
Ubisoft is suing a website that sold cheats for the game Destiny for monetary compensation and removal of the website. AimJunkies is disputing the claim. In a separate incident, Chinese police arrested developers of cheats for Tencent games who reportedly made $76 million from their illegal venture.
Episode115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
PodcastDarknet Diaries
Game developers are struggling to combat hackers and cheaters in their games and are resorting to legal threats and in-game security measures to try and prevent it, but must work on improving game code and monitoring systems to achieve success.
37:26 - 41:35 (04:09)
Summary
Game developers are struggling to combat hackers and cheaters in their games and are resorting to legal threats and in-game security measures to try and prevent it, but must work on improving game code and monitoring systems to achieve success.