Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is an open world battle game developed by MiHoYo.

Incidents

Genshin Impact uses kernel-level (Ring 0) anticheat, which provides full access to system resources. In 2022, the anticheat driver mhyprot2.sys was used by hackers to bypass all privileges and deliver ransomware.^[1]

 Further Reading : Kernel Level Anti-Cheats

References

↑ https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/h/ransomware-actor-abuses-genshin-impact-anti-cheat-driver-to-kill-antivirus.html

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