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Motorized aim assist system uses a moving mousepad for laser-accurate headshots — a cannibalized GRBL drawing system and computer vision software deliver perfect shots (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Saw a video about all kinds of modern cheats and once it got to cheap, easy to make hardware cheats that essentially could never be detected, I figured it was time to quit playing competitive online games. Paid for or not, the shit is super easy to do and super common to encounter even if you might not notice it because of how easy they can be to hide.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It is cheaper now, but a full DMA setup costs about as much as an entry-level PC and you need a second PC to run all of the cheats.

    What he's demonstrating, using image recognition, is pretty cheap and probably even more undetectable but you 'only' get aimbotting and there is a bit of latency due to the neural network processing step. DMA cheats gives you aimbotting and all of the ESP info instantly.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    The video I am talking about showed that people are just using Rasberry Pis these days to make effective undetectable aimbots, ESP, wallhacks, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The class of hacks that use trained object detection networks (like YOLO) can be run on lightweight(-ish) hardware. It still needs to be able to run the object recognition loop quickly, the faster your hardware the less latency you will experience but it can work on Raspberry Pi.

    In order to get ESP/wallhacks, you need to be able to read the game memory on the gaming PC. While there are software ways to do this, they are all detectable (assuming they're using Secure Boot to prevent UEFI cheats). The most reliable way is to use Direct Memory Access hardware to read the system memory via hardware without going through the operating system, which means that not even the kernel anticheats can see when this is happening.

    If you're going to use ESP, you also need to be able to see the information. You could run a second monitor, but the preferred way is to use a fuser which merges two video streams, one from the game from the gaming PC and another from the PC rendering the ESP data (bounding boxes).

    Then you need some kind of hardware to receive the mouse input and pretend to be a mouse to the gaming PC. This can be something like a Raspberry Pi, but a product called Kmbox is purpose designed for it.

    The full hardware kit is probably around $300-400 (not counting the PC/Pi) and then you have to buy/subscribe to the software that actually runs the cheats.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    They are hooking the Raspberry Pi (or other) rig to the PC playing the game directly on the bus through a $20 PCI-E device, bypassing the RAM to get and manipulate info in the game for ESP and wallhacks.

    Imma have to go through my YT history and try to find that video again.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Ohhh, those are UEFI cheats. This is the reason that kernel anti-cheat games require Secure Boot.

    You can, when Secure Boot is disabled, use the UEFI to load a driver that can perform DMA actions prior to loading the Windows kernel. A user could then run an innocuous piece of software that would communicate with the driver and send the data to the USB device which would run the cheat software and do the mouse manipulation (and you would configure the devices from the gaming PC over the same USB interface). e: This could technically be detected because there is still software running on the user's PC that the anti-cheat software could detect and a USB device that could, if the firmware is not properly flashed to a firmware pretending to be something innocuous (typically a NIC or Audio device).

    This let anybody willing to install a UEFI driver of unknown origin have access to DMA without needing to buy an expensive card. This is only possible on any game that doesn't mandate Windows 11 and Secure Boot (though there was a recent exploit discovered with some motherboards [CVE-2025-11901, CVE-2025-14302, CVE-2025-14303 and CVE-2025-14304] that allowed an attacker to obtain DMA access prior to the IOMMU being properly initialized (which would restrict DMA access).

    This would allow an attacker to run software on a second PC that would use this lapse to inject a hacked UEFI driver via a hardware DMA device, then you could just send the memory data over USB to a second cheating device.

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