Playing Dirty w/o Cheating - Getting Banned for Fun

Sam Collins, Marius Muench, Tom Chothia

DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Main Stage

Modern anti-cheat systems are some of the most sophisticated rootkits deployed at consumer scale. They run at kernel level, intercept system calls, monitor loaded drivers, and in some cases enforce in

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A University of Birmingham team proves you can earn permanent bans in major online multiplayer games without cheating, and weaponize HWID ban systems to ban innocent players — demonstrated live against a professor's Valorant account.

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