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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Bruno Ferreira

Denuvo has been cracked, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

Digital security.

A good portion of the gaming- and piracy-adjacent internet has been on fire for the past few weeks, as a bypass for the (in)famous Denuvo copy-protection method has become popular. Not only did the new method enable the release of existing titles, but zero-day repacks are now the norm.

Contemporary versions of Denuvo and its multilayered DRM approaches have stood the test of time well and were widely regarded as the benchmark in the PC game DRM space. Naturally, this spells trouble for Denuvo and its parent company, Irdeto, as its primary source of revenue is now arguably useless.

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