{"id":58810,"date":"2022-09-14T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5ec31b4a74a3ab6c7191b64581d67636"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:39:18","slug":"eas-new-anti-cheat-tools-dip-into-the-dreaded-kernel-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58810","title":{"rendered":"EA\u2019s new anti-cheat tools dip into the dreaded \u201ckernel mode\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Better let a company with a long record of shipping broken garbage install a rootkit on the machine I do my work and banking on, to make it marginally harder for people to cheat at video games \/s<\/div>
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Artist's conception of EA trying to fake out cheaters with its new tools. <\/p> <\/figure>

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EA announced its latest salvo in the endless<\/a> cat-and-mouse battle<\/a> of PC gaming cheat detection<\/a> on Tuesday, and the effort prominently features one term sure to raise a red flag for some users: \"kernel mode.\"<\/p>\n

The new kernel-level EA Anti-Cheat (EAAC) tools will roll out with the PC version of FIFA 23<\/em> this month, EA announced, and will eventually be added to all of its multiplayer games (including those with ranked online leaderboards). But strictly single-player titles \"may implement other anti-cheat technology, such as user-mode protections, or even forgo leveraging anti-cheat technology altogether,\" EA Senior Director of Game Security & Anti-Cheat Elise Murphy wrote in a Tuesday blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unlike anti-cheat methods operating in an OS's normal \"user mode,\" kernel-level anti-cheat tools provide a low-level, system-wide view of how cheat tools might mess with a game's memory or code from the outside. That allows anti-cheat developers to detect a wider variety of cheating threats, as Murphy explained in an extensive FAQ<\/a>:<\/p><\/div>

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Enlarge \/ Artist’s conception of EA trying to fake out cheaters with its new tools. <\/p>\n

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