PUBG gives behind-the-scenes insight into anti-cheating efforts

PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds have been dealing with cheats since the beginning of its popularity. PUBG Corp. has adopted an aggressive approach to prosecute hackers – even helping regional police to locate and stop hackers and hack tool providers. A new video produced by the company provides insight into the teams and people involved in fighting cheating in the game.

The video is a (somewhat sterile) summary of PUBG Corp's anti-cheat efforts. Dohyung Lee, head of the anti-cheating unit at PUBG, and Wonha Ryu, head of anti-cheat operations, explain some of the broader concepts and approaches they use to identify cheats and hacking tools as they become available. that new methods appear.

According to the video, PUBG's anti-cheat unit relies on a combination of internal tools and player reports to identify trends in cheating. Once the hacking is identified, the team will find the third-party hack tool or device used to facilitate cheating. Engineers will then try to deploy countermeasures in the game, while another team will impose penalties on players who use the tool, usually in the form of a ban.

Here is the full video:

The anti-cheat unit also has an analysis team that uses machine learning techniques to develop algorithms to help identify cheaters more quickly. With so much data to consider in every match, there are many things to work with with an AI.

The video also discusses the collaboration of the Anti-Cheat Unit with Ryu, "international partners". Apparently, law enforcement organizations use PUBG Corp's piracy data to identify, arrest and prosecute individuals who create and sell illegal software.

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Dongwan Kim, one of PUBG's anti-cheat engineers, said the company also used machine learning techniques to make PUBG harder to develop for cheaters.

"Cheat developers will always evolve their techniques to try to get around ours," he said. "So we have recently created a very sophisticated technical response that makes it more difficult for offenders to develop illegal programs, such as pointer and memory encryption, code virtualization, section redesign, and so on.

It may seem complicated, but the theory seems to be that it is harder to hit a moving target – which is certainly a principle that applies to PUBG itself.

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