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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats
Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making a fortune from gamers looking to gain a quick edge.
“They're much easier and quicker for developers to create using machine learning and AI and object detection programs,” Hogan says, noting that there has been a surge of their use in recent months. The researchers do say that in their analysis of 80 cheat-selling websites they didn’t find any direct evidence of scams or malware, most likely because they are trying to make money and build strong reputations. In April, Elise Murphy, head of game security at Electronic Arts, wrote in a blog post that the company’s Jevelin anti-cheat system has blocked 33 million attempts at cheating since the software launched in 2022.
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