FuckDenuvo. Let's see to which lengths they'll go to block hypervisor.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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This crack sounds too scary to use. Impressive, but scary.
As usual for any DRM company or publisher, Irdeto also claimed that downloading games with the bypass is a security concern, but this time around, the company has a valid point.
Using the hypervisor bypass, even in its latest incarnation, requires users to... [install] a community-made hypervisor (HV) with Windows running on top of it. This HV fakes responses to the checks that Denuvo makes, and runs with higher permissions... than the operating system itself and has full, nearly untraceable access to hardware and software.
Wow, wait until you hear about the Intel Management Engine
Do you have a moment for our lord and savoir Coreboot? Also RISC
I wouldn't touch this without air-gapping the machine it's run on. The funny thing here is that Denuvo can't do much to prevent this hack.
The HV is intentionally malicious and modifies the guest on the fly to archive the Denuvo hack. The hack requires to disable all major security protections in the victim OS, so the HV can more freely poke at the victim kernel. A jne-instruction to check if running under a compromised HV? It's now a nop-instruction.
The HV has access to everything that is plugged in physically, or run on top of it. In theory it e.g. extract encryption keys of https connections from any process in the guest.
Empress building a high end botnet?
Well, you could potentially get a cheap office special PC to use as a guinea pig. (Depending on what it takes to run this software)
The problem with well-coded malware is it won't execute unless it thinks it's not being watched. And based on everything else in this article, it sounds like you'd also be opening your computer up to other parties exploiting security holes in the process.
So a separate computer might work, but it would have to stay separate.
Would running an os in a separate partition just for games mitigate the risks?
Not really? No reason it couldn't just read those separate partitions too
lol, get rekd, malware.
Suck my balls Denuvo
DRM to prevent copying games without official license has always been a waste of money. It is always just a matter of time until even the hardest DRM measure is broken. Always has been like this. I remember when Ubisoft was very proud of their new fancy DRM shitware that prevented running unlicensed copies of some Assassin's Creed title, only for it to be cracked a month later and the crackers saying "thanks for this interesting challenge".
'Loss' due to piracy was always like 3%. It costs way more than that for this mess. They don't have to be good, just annoying enough to keep 97% of people paying.
Sure, it's always been a question of time, but Denuvo has been very effective for decades. There were very few people who were able or willing to crack Denuvo games before. Publishers really only cared about the initial release anyway, and after a few months, it wasn't worth paying for it anymore so they'd remove it from their games.
Not only has that always been the case, but that's the only possibility: DRM, on a fundamental level, is just encryption where Bob and Eve are the same person.
(For the uninitiated, the basic problem statement for cryptography is that Alice wants to send a message to Bob without Eve knowing what it says.)
Lmao, fucking fantastic. Hope they crash and burn.
Noice
Hypervisor is too much of a security risk for me to want to use it. I'll either get the game without Denuvo on console, wait for it to be removed, or not play it at all.
Or have your gaming pc separate from your work pc. If someone hacks my gaming pc, they can have my save files because that's all they are getting.
Sounds useful for reverse-engineering use but impractical for end users.
Finally get to check out Black Myth. Still won't buy it until it just doesn't have Denuvo at all, tho.