![]() ![]() ![]() "There's always going to be people looking to cheat the system because there's always going to be business for it," says Rosario. ![]() In order to help protect against cheats, the games industry might consider ramping up their bug bounty programmes because if good guys can close off bugs that cheaters are going to look to exploit, it will cause much less damage in the long run even if it can't cut out the bad actors completely. SEE: Fortnite security issue would have granted hackers access to accounts Many organisations run bug bounty schemes, encouraging white-hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in their software in return for a financial reward. Major online games have anti-cheat systems, but it's perhaps time to augment these with some lessons from the broader security industry. However, the similarity in the code of gaming cheats and malware means that cybersecurity researchers could play an important role in fighting against the cheat developers – and thus potentially stopping some of those behind these schemes getting confident enough to switch their focus to malware. ![]()
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