Genshin Impact Anticheat

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Genshin Impact Anticheat

Basic Information
Release Year	2020
Product Type	Video Games
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/

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Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product:

• Privacy: Genshin Impact Anti-cheat is a kernel level anti-cheat for a what is mostly a single player game. Genshin Impact's developers, Mihoyo, is a Chinese company headquartered in Shanhai.
• Control: Users must have this anti-cheat running while playing the game, and after the game is finished playing.
• Access: As a kernel-level anti-cheat, the anti-cheat has the highest amount of privilege on your system.

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Genshin Impact Anticheat category.

Genshin Impact Anti-cheat Used to Bypass Anti-virus in Ransomware Attack (August, 2022)

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Genshin Impact's anti-cheat was used in a ransomware attack vector. This was originally reported on by TrendMicro. During this period of vulnerability, Genshin Impact's anti-cheat was utilized to bypass anti-virus software, allowing attackers to remotely deploy ransomware payloads to an affected user's computer.

Genshin Impact's PR team, Hoyoverse PR, responded to multiple news outlets with a generic answer that seems to confirm the validity of the claims by TrendMicro.

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