Denuvo Has Been Broken: Hypervisor Bypasses Enable Day-Zero Cracks, Irdeto Promises a Fix

[David_Schroth]

After years of holding as the de facto gold standard for PC game anti-piracy, Denuvo has been functionally broken by a new class of exploit. Hypervisor-based bypasses, which operate beneath the Windows operating system at Ring -1, are now enabling pirated releases of major titles within hours of their official launch. TorrentFreak confirmed that high-profile […]

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[Grimlakin]

Man... I was all excited until you had to make the system 100% venerable to use it.

 

[Riccochet]

I looked in to HV bypasses, there's no way I'm running any of that. So much involved and leaves way too many gaping security holes.

 

[Grimlakin]

I looked in to HV bypasses, there's no way I'm running any of that. So much involved and leaves way too many gaping security holes.

Agreed 100% You know some people will though... and it's not like these places distributing game hacks are exactly going to know if the program itself is 100% secure.

 

[DrezKill]

Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, bypasses become plug-and-play — cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

Is that burning smell coming from Irdeto's offices?

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As if that weren't enough bad news for Denuvo's parent company, Irdeto, the existing hypervisor-based bypass (HV) that currently requires disabling most of Windows' security layers is seemingly getting a serious upgrade. According to MKDev member KiriGiri, the bypass should soon become plug-and-play, as "[they] found a way to make HV crack to be used without disabling any windows security or other things" (sic).