Video game ‘cheats’ are as old as the video games industry itself. In fact, games developers add their own cheats to make it easier to test or review their games. A classic cheat might make the player’s character immortal, or provide shortcuts from level to level. But in today’s online gaming world, hackers reverse-engineer the underlying code of online games to give cheaters an unfair advantage. While old-fashioned cheats gave individuals a chance to explore game worlds in new ways, cheats for online multiplayer games impact the whole network. Ruining the game impacts players and games developers alike. And cheats compromise the security of their users and everybody else in the game. Historically, this took the form of DDoS and similar attacks. Today’s cheats bring the risk of privacy breaches and malware into massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). At Surfshark we believe in fairness. While you game on our VPN not only will your privacy be protected, but so will your IP address ma...
