Source: Hacker News
Article note: Installing a kernel-mode rootkit to combat cheating in a game seems really excessive to me, and like an incentive for even-more-intrusive cheating mechanisms to propagate malware, but I've never really taken multiplayer anything seriously.
Edit: Oh. https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1249901037160284161 They do.
I'm surprised the cheat market hasn't moved on to hardware, an HDMI tap and USB HID device emulator on a little attached computer could do a lot, as could a carefully tampered network card.
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