A New Era of Game Piracy Is Closer Than Ever: Hackers Working on a Simple and Safe Hypervisor Method
Some people in the piracy scene have found a way to make hypervisor-based cracks far less awkward to run. A tool called DSE-Patcher can push those payloads into the system like ordinary cracks, at least in the current experiments.
The trick rides on the BYOVD flaw — a weakness in a Microsoft-signed driver that, i.e., lets an unsigned hypervisor driver be loaded. The only real checkbox is that virtualization must be enabled; FYI, many machines already have that switched on by default.
Hacker KiriGiri gave it a run with Resident Evil Requiem. She got the approach working, though the rig crashed to a blue screen after several hours. The plan is to harden and polish the workflow until it’s a literal "press and play" experience.
CS.RIN’s admins haven’t green-lit the method yet, and for now this sits closer to a proof-of-concept than a polished release. It’s interesting to watch—some will cheer, others will wince, and the next round of tweaks is already being discussed.