How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone’s hardware for the lawls.
Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.
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I’m on the side of the attackers on this one. BattleEye is trash.
How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone’s hardware for the lawls.
Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.
Are you sure?
Something along those lines already happened…
https://www.pcgamer.com/ransomware-abuses-genshin-impacts-kernel-mode-anti-cheat-to-bypass-antivirus-protection/