Gaming & Media

This blog post is part one in a short series on learning some basic game hacking techniques. I’ve chosen Warcraft 2 for a variety of reasons: With those things in mind, most older RTS games work in a similar manner, and you should be able to apply these techniques to…

Introduction We are going to walk through the process we took to reverse engineer parts of the Android game Coin Hunt World. Our goal was to identify methods and develop tooling to cheat at the game. Most of the post covers reverse engineering the game’s binary protocol and using that…

In this blog post, I’m going to recount the story of my quest to train OpenAI’s large language model, GPT-2, to create a virtual doppelganger of myself and my peers. Machine learning is one of those buzzwords that, sometimes, lives up to its reputation. As an information security professional, my…

Authored by: Jesús Miguel Calderón Marín Introduction Two years ago I carried out research into online casino games specifically focusing on roulette. As a result, I composed a detailed guide with information on classification of online roulette, potential vulnerabilities and the ways to detect them[1]. Although this guideline was particularly…

Among the variety of penetration testing engagements NCC Group delivers, some – often within the gaming industry – require performing the assignment in a blackbox fashion against an obfuscated binary, and the client’s priorities revolve more around evaluating the strength of their obfuscation against content protection violations, rather than exercising…

Introduction In recent years, the gaming industry has grown significantly, especially casino games and sports betting. Online casinos consolidate their position as one of the main sources of entertainment in many countries worldwide, which evidently involves a notable rise in their turnover. For instance, in Spain alone, the gaming industry…

This blog post provides an overview of cheating and anti-cheat methods in electronic games. NCC Group has previously looked at cheating, and found ways to bypass anti-cheat, but this is more of an overview. It doesn’t contain details on particular games or companies. Cheats are specific to individual games and…

All of this research was performed by our Managing Security Consultant, Balazs Bucsay @xoreipeip (https://twitter.com/xoreipeip) during the winter of 2016/2017. After changing Internet provider at my home in 2016, I received a new broadband modem; the Virgin Media Hub 3.0. Somehow I always get this itchy feeling whenever a new device is…

A colleague and I were discussing retro-gaming in the office, reminiscing about the classic text adventures from the 1980s. He really enjoyed Infocom adventures whereas I was a big fan of the Magnetic Scrolls series. They can all still be played under various emulators like Frotz and Magnetic. For nostalgia’s sake, I showed him Jinxter, one of the…