DENUVO CRACKED? New Bypass raises concerns!

The well-known Denuvo, which has protected games from copying and piracy until now, HAS JUST BEEN BYPASSED! And because of that, gamers all across the internet went wild!

Denuvo and all of its multilayered DRM approaches have lasted for a very long time, even years. And what just happened has already started causing problems for the Denuvo company and its parent company Irdeto, because with their system being bypassed, they have now become ineffective.

Irdeto publicly stated that they have already started working on damage control and countermeasures, and they promised that in future versions, "performance will not be compromised," saying that improvements will not go deeper into the operating system.

They mentioned the performance part because of the well-known controversy regarding Denuvo’s CPU spikes, which caused games to lag too much. However, Denuvo denied that same controversy, and people mocked it and made memes about it online, since cracked versions often ran much better and had less lag, sometimes almost no lag at all.

Irdeto also stated that downloading games with the newest bypass is a security concern, which is something a company like that would normally say. However, this time they have a point. This latest hypervisor bypass requires you to disable many important things such as:

1. Virtualization-Based Security: which is used to separate the Windows operating system from its security enforcement features that run at a higher privilege level.

2. Credential Guard: a sub-feature of VBS that keeps login credentials in a container isolated from the rest of the operating system.

3. Driver Signature Enforcement: verification that any drivers installed in the system must have a digital signature issued by Microsoft to an identifiable company or developer, in order to prevent installing random drivers at the system level.

4. Core Isolation / Memory Integrity (HVCI): similar to the above, but prevents any kernel-level unsigned code entirely, as well as modifications to existing signed code so programs can't attempt to mess with existing drivers.

5. Installing a community-made hypervisor (HV) with Windows running on top of it. This HV fakes responses to the checks that Denuvo makes, and runs with higher permissions (ring level -1) than the operating system itself and has full, nearly untraceable access to hardware and software

Of course, as we all already know, disabling any one of those security features is not good at all—let alone disabling all of them at once. If something were to happen to the PC, such as a virus—or even worse, IF SOMETHING IS ALREADY ON THE PC—it could completely infect every part of the system and destroy it in ways that are irreversible.

Adding further concern, there's no telling that even without any malicious intent, the new HyperVisor won't have a security flaw of its own that could be exploited.

What’s good is that gamers are already cautious about this, and game repacks come with easy-to-use scripts for disabling and re-enabling all security measures.
The recommended procedure is to disable them, reboot, and play the game. And once you’re done playing, you would enable them again and restart. Which is honestly too much work for most people, and those who already crack games likely wouldn’t bother with security anyway.

Even in the piracy community, the team behind the designed HyperVisor and popular repackers like FitGirl have warned about security. Cautious gamers who don’t want to lower their PC defenses will have to wait for a proper crack to arrive.