PUBG continues to improve anti-Hack with heavier punishment

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Like most online multiplayer games, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds There are also a lot of hackers in recent years. As of December of last year, PUBG Corp had to deal with about 100,000 offending accounts per week. At the present time, the studio has introduced a series of new measures to address the use of the program cheatwith plans to implement tougher bans this year.

In a post on the official website, PUBG PC CEO Taeseok Jang said: “The battle against cheats will never end and we have been working hard to find a solution to this problem. limit this situation.” Realizing that “hacking” is a priority for the studio, director Jang has introduced many improve new developer, with the goal of ensuring players can feel the impact of their efforts.
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The first of these measures is “enhanced prevention,” designed to prevent fraud before it occurs, such that each account will have two-factor authentication to avoid the possibility of being hacked. theft, reporting and banning. This measure also addresses security holes in the game code.

In addition, this year, the studio also focused on improving the detection feature of the automatic ban system, and improving the game’s hardware ban system when there are signs of hacking.

PUBG Corp expands the scope of data detection to prevent cheat programs more effectively, as well as deploys automatic analysis to detect users using cheat programs through finding the difference. at the value between legitimate and hacking environments. The studio hopes these changes will be ready to roll out in July of this year.
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Once a hacker is identified, there are two ways of implementing harsher bans. First of all, PUBG Corp has overhauled the system to issue a ban on HWID, which means that computer enhancements will look for hardware information at the user and kernel level using specific algorithms to even if the cheat program tries to hack, the developer can quickly block the program again. This will help apply bans on PCs as well as accounts using fraudulent programs.

The company also strengthened the level of bans by changing its approach to accounts that are temporarily banned for investigation. While doing their best to avoid “mistaken bans”, the developer realizes that being overly cautious can negatively impact more casual users than the number of accounts under investigation. The studio plans to put in place stricter measures, including additional monitoring for cheaters in June 2020.

You can read more about the anti-hacker changes, plans to improve PUBG performance and stability here.​