anti-cheat

Black Hat·41 min

• Black Hat
• Community
• Date: 2025
• Location: Black Hat

Industry experts analyze emerging threats surrounding Unveiling the Underground World of Anti-Cheats.

Briefings·40 min

• Black Hat
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Marius Muench · Sam Collins · Tom Chothia

Anti-cheat is a gold mine of interesting, novel defenses—battle-hardened from years of attrition in a defender's worst nightmare.

Community Stage·30 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Joe 'Juno' Aurelio

Joe Aurelio draws parallels between video game cheat loaders and enterprise malware, exploring how anti-cheat countermeasures mirror modern EDR evasion tradecraft.

CypherCon 8.0·30 min

• CYPHERCON
• Red Team
• Date: 2025
• Location: Cyphercon

Connor Kastner | CypherCon 8.0

Connor Kastner | CypherCon 8.0 analyzes Not Fair!!1!: Bypassing Anti-Cheat With Direct Memory Access.

Main Stage·47 min

• DEF CON
• Mobile
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Hugo Gonzalez · Caleb Howell

Deconstructs the anti-cheat and runtime integrity mechanisms in Pokemon Go, demonstrating mobile reverse engineering and integrity bypass tradecraft.

Main Stage·39 min

• DEF CON
• AppSec
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

S Collins · M Muench · T Chothia

Investigates anti-cheat detection heuristics and server-side validation flaws across competitive online games, revealing how unusual play triggers bans.

Security Fest·38 min

• SECURITY FEST
• Red Team
• Date: 2025
• Location: Security Fest

SecurityFest2023 examines Bypassing Anti-Cheats & Hacking Competitive Games - Rohan Aggarwal.

Main Stage·44 min

• DEF CON
• Blue Team
• Date: Aug 2024
• Location: Las Vegas

Allan Cecil

Forensic detection techniques using Tool-Assisted Speedrun recording quirks and input analysis to catch video game leaderboard cheaters.

Black Hat Asia·38 min

• Black Hat
• Red Team
• Date: 2023
• Location: Black Hat

Rohan Aggarwal

Analysts investigate attack surfaces and defenses concerning Bypassing Anti-Cheats & Hacking Competitive Games.

Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITBSecConf)·54 min

• HITB
• Red Team
• Date: 2023
• Location: Hitb

Rohan Aggarwal

Rohan Aggarwal examines #HITB2023AMS D1T2 - Bypassing Anti-Cheats And Hacking Competitive Games.

SteelCon·24 min

• STEELCON
• Community
• Date: 2022
• Location: Steelcon

Niharika

Game Cheats Vs Anti-Cheats: A Journey Through Windows Internals.

Main Stage·36 min

• DEF CON
• AppSec
• Date: May 2019
• Location: Beijing

Joey Zhu

Joey Zhu examines the game security is a branch of security without noteworthy, but the problems is critical for game survival.