Overview

What is cheating?

Cheating is:

• Abusing game logic
• Botting/Scripting
• Manipulating extraneous client-side data
• Exploiting client / server code bugs
• Abusing bugs/glitches
• Attacking other players or the game server

Current state of cheating in video gaming

• DLL injection (internal cheating)
  • Loader
  • DLL implementing cheat logic
    • Hook Direct3D calls
    • Read/Write memory
• Network packet manipulation
  • Modify packets in-transit
  • Repeat packets
  • Introduce artificial lag
• External cheating
  • ReadProcessMemory / WriteProcessMemory
  • Transparent window