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The Denuvo anti-tamper software company has taken another hit to its reputation over the weekend, where it was discovered that there was a leak in its private messaging system. That leak was discovered by hackers and lead to a number of messages from developers and the general public appearing online.
The gap in Denuvo's security appears to have been on its official domain, where a log file recorded a number of messages sent through the company's web form since 2014. There is a lot of spam in there, as you might expect from any web form, but there are a number of legitimate messages in there too.
There are requests by developers for information on applying the Denuvo anti-tamper system to upcoming games, complaints from end-users that it has negatively impacted their games, including some death threats (thanks Ars). Worryingly for those that sent them, the log file also contains their email addresses. The fact that this was stored in a readable manner represents a strange security lapse for a firm who's main job is protecting digital content.
Of course the security of a web form that was possibly put together by an outside contract firm, or a random IT manager years ago, doesn't reflect on the security of the company's main DRM software. It could impact its public image though, which could affect the usage of Denuvo in the future.
More interesting perhaps, is that the news of this leak does come around the time of the fastest crack in Denuvo's history. Could it be that those who discovered this leak found something which helped them break open the anti-tamper system?
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KitGuru Says: Denuvo has been a very successful protective system for developers, but perhaps it's starting to slip. What do you think?
KitGuru come on you are really trying to stir the pot here. Insinuating that the incoming messages to the company might have tipped off hackers as to how the internals of the DRM software worked? Didn’t the story already break that Denuvo wasn’t even cracked, the game was accidentally uploaded without it?
Nearly all denuvo games have been cracked. You can look that up yourself with a simple google search. The game that was uploaded without it was Conan exiles. Denuvo is being cracked faster and faster, at some point they’ll have to rework the entire DRM system again.
Nearly all? Maybe half.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo
Yeah Conan Exiles is the one they are referring to when they say it was cracked in record time aren’t they?
I’m not confused as to the status of Denuvo, I just thought that the article was legit for the first half, reporting the actual piece of news but then turned into some gossip mag style of writing the way it was going out of its way to stir things up based on “could be”s.
It’s just not the normal style I would expect from a tech article, like they are rooting for the company to fail just to make the story seem more dramatic.
Was it not the new Resident Evil that was cracked in “record time”?
i hope denuvo will have the same faith securom had… they deserve it 🙂
As Breckoo said it was Resident Evil. And before that it was God Eater 2, now Battlefield 1, Watch_Dogs 2, Far Cry Primal, Champions of Anteria, Arkham Knight, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid 5.
that list on the wiki is super old. they never update it. Go chcek the offical reddit site for all the denuvo game crack.