With a working Denuvo DRM crack, hacker 'voices38' is back on the scene cracking a handful of recent SEGA games. The relevance of this news is that this action nullifies digital rights management that stops unauthorized game copies, which could potentially influence sales and control over game distribution for SEGA. The incident also shows that even big publishers aren't safe to have an iron grip on their software forever using this particular protection layer.
voices38 uses full DRM bypass on SEGA titles
The games that have been cracked include Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles (and its sequel). Both titles are SEGA published. The first game released in 2021 while the sequel game dropped last year.
So these are fairly recent games on the gaming landscape. These particular games are some of the first targets of the renewed cracking effort, so you can immediately feel the effect of this on availability of these games on pirate platforms.
The approach that voices38 took is with a full DRM crack, not a hypervisor bypass, and this is a more solid technical solution to cracking this protection. This makes a difference because hypervisor bypasses can be quite transient or limited to specific hardware set ups, while full cracks are often more lasting and generalizable. It also indicates that the Denuvo setup for these SEGA games probably had a few holes, at least enough to get a full override.
voices38 has a history of running afoul of the law. He had already been pursued by Denuvo lawyers earlier in the year, and now he's back in action. The part here is that there's legal entities on the prowl to target people doing this DRM circumvention.
So there's some risk and urgency here. It's also a sign that we're continuing to play the cat-and-mouse game with security firms and crackers, and we're not sure who will be victorious in the battle for software protection.
Source: IXBT
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