Who Touched My Client? - Game Hackers

Game Hackers By Jonathan S. Sup guys, im Jonathan Sawer, aka backslash. I am persian jewish and i love to play sports and play mmos as well. I want to show my passion for gaming and write articles the way people want them read. You have to enjoy what you do to do it right, and thats what i do for every article i write.

Note: this is educational purposes. I am not responsible for any problems you might face by reading this. I wrote this to show players the risk and consequences of hacking in the MMO world.

Types of Hackers

Professional Hackers

Professional hackers are mainly intelligient male men around the ages of 18 through 35. They are mostly former employees of major security and network sites such as Microsoft or IBM. They are very intelligient and creative in many aspects and in the way they perform and attack. Not much is known besides that of them as they hide their identities when they attack by blocking or hiding their ips and mac addresses. The types of hacks they use are to infect or tamper with certain files in a computer or to steal valuable information of a person. Some ex-hackers also work for the government now and are "tiger" specialists which mean they counter hacking programs.

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Hobbyist Hacker

Mostly teens and early adults at the ages of 13-21. They like to explore the capabilites and like to have advantages or power over others. They spend countless hours looking for undetectable hacks to be one-step ahead of their opponents or those who they play against. In some ways they want to show off and have to keep up with the growing spans of the game they play and require the hacks to speed them through it.

1 Speed Hacking

Speed hacking works by speeding up the computers macro speed. Your computer has a certain speed that it runs on to maintain ram and speed, and that everything can run smoothly. These speed hacks change that by speeding it up which also speeds up the game that you are playing. The speed hacks are easily detectable and noticeable by anyone when you walk. Speed hacks also cause huge lags and latency problems between you and the server. Luckily most games can counter these speed hacks because they communicate with the current computer to manage a normal macro speed.

2 Farm Botting

Farm botting is when a character is given certain waypoints or directions to perform certain tasks. The certain bot trainer tells the character to repeatedly farm for monsters or gather herbs an potions. This all happens while the player is away from his computer and the bot does the work for him. Botting is commonly found in WoW and in Guild Wars, which is later sold for real money on hacking websites. As you can see in the video, botting is noticeable just like speed hacking and most games give and instant ban to characters with no refunds.

3 Aimbot

An aimbot is a type of auto aim in certain games to provide levels of target acquisition to the player. Some aimbots can do all of the aiming and shooting, requiring the user to move into a position to where the opponent is noticeable. It is hard to dodge aimbots or to prevent them other then to report them, because it will most likely kill you instantly. Highly-skilled players are frequently accused of this. Aimbots though seem very noticeable, some players take time before activating to prevent any suspicion. Since Aimbots require alot of aid-work alot of the coding in the game must be changed, so it is highly likely to be detected by a good anti-hack.

4 Ghosting

An aimbot is a type of auto aim in certain games to provide levels of target acquisition to the player. Some aimbots can do all of the aiming and shooting, requiring the user to move into a position to where the opponent is noticeable. It is hard to dodge aimbots or to prevent them other then to report them, because it will most likely kill you instantly. Highly-skilled players are frequently accused of this. Aimbots though seem very noticeable, some players take time before activating to prevent any suspicion. Since Aimbots require alot of aid-work alot of the coding in the game must be changed, so it is highly likely to be detected by a good anti-hack.

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