talk: hacking video games (slides+sources)
A talk on video game hacking, with:
- a broad introduction on the different game hack techniques
- a deeper dive on the Cheat Engine Memory viewer and debugger tool
- a tour of anti-cheat techniques and mitigations.
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# Sources
| Type | Author | Source | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article | Irdeto | Global gaming survey: The Last checkpoint for cheating | Serious statistics on how hurtful to the economy is video game cheat… by the Denuvo anti-cheat provider |
| Video | Micode, Martin Balch | On a reçu le hacker qui vendait des cheats aux pros | history of hacks for tournament competitors |
| Video | PabloMK7 | ENLBufferPwn Vulnerability - Mario Kart 7 demonstration | RCE on Nintendo 3DS via Mario Kart lobby. |
| Article | Synacktiv, Thomas Dubier | Exploiting American Conquest | multiplayer pwn via chat messages. |
| Article | Synacktiv, Victor Cutillas , Louis Jacotot | Exploring Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Attack Surface | |
| Tool | sinai-dev | UnityExplorer | Hook and Explore Unity objects |
| Tool | oleavr | Frida | Hook methods everywhere |
| Tool | baldurk | RenderDoc | Inspect GPU render pipeline |
| Tool | Microsoft,Mark Russinovich | Procmon | inspect filesystem activity of process |
| Tool | Owasp | Owasp Zap | the better Burp 😉 (at least free) |
| Tool | DarkByte | Cheat Engine | |
| Tool | korcankaraokcu | PINCE | Cheat Engine but for Linux |
| Tool | Enyby | GameGuardian | Cheat Engine but for Android |
| Article | Hacktricks | Hacktricks - CheatEngine | Quick tutorial on CE. |
| Article | Cheat Engine wiki | Cheat Engine Tutorial Guide | wiki with all the docs (+ check forums) |
| Video | Stephen Chapman | How to Use Code Filter in Cheat Engine! [ TUNIC ] | Fantastic channel with complete guide on Cheat Engine |
| Video | Guided Hacking | Ultimate Cheat Engine Beginner Tutorial Part 1 | GH102 | Cheat engine course with great editing |
| Courses | Guided Hacking | Guided Hacking courses | full video game hacking courses: paid (and not cheap 🥲) |
| Chall | Vector35 | Pwn Adventure 3 | Open-world Multiplayer CtF chall |
| Chall | GoogleCTF | Hackceler8 | Mix of game and regular CtF |
| Chall | Root-Me, LordRoke, Stealer, Sengengie | HackerMan | Chall CheatEngine Root-Me (also check the other Unity/Godot challs!) |
| Chall | Tuxlu | Flag Quest | Soon™ |
| Tool | ICSharpCode | ILSpy | C# Decompiler (Unity and Mono games) |
| Tool | Jeremy Pritts | AssetRipper | Asset Rip for unity |
| tool | GDRETools | gdsdecomp | Godot Decompiler |
| Article | Unity | IL2CPP Overview | Explanation on Unity's IL2CPP backend |
| Article | sepTN | Protecting Your Godot Project from Decompilation | detailed guide hindering all decompiling tools. |
| Tool | AlSch092 | UltimateAntiCheat | Open source Windows anti-cheat |
| Article | ssno | Reverse Engineering Call Of Duty Anti-Cheat | full reverse of Call of Duty anti-cheat techniques |
| Video | Ombarus | Time Cheating in Video Games : Deep Dive with Godot | Preventing cheaters to revert their system clock to get more daily bonuses. |
| Tool | Kokkoroshinzou | against-cheating-value-plus | Memory values protector in godot |
| Tool | Code Stage | Anti-Cheat Toolkit | Anti-cheat plugin for unity (paid and closed source) |
| Video | Asso HZV, Aurelien Chalot | Du Driver Windows à l'EDR | Explanation on EDR workings, similar to Kernel-level anti-cheats |
| Video | Micode, Martin Bruder | On a découvert le monde fascinant des AI-cheats | Advanced anti-cheat presentation (screen reading and hardware hacks) |