Just Cause 3 and Denuvo

So apparently the same thing is happening with JC3 that happened with FIFA15 and DAI.

The founder of notorious Chinese cracking forum 3DM is warning that given the current state of anti-piracy technology, in two years there might be no more pirate games to play. The claims come after attempts to breach the Denuvo security protecting Just Cause 3 pushed the group's cracking expert to breaking point.

Do you know what drives technological innovation? Competition! Right now anti-tamper/DRM solutions are being sought because of piracy, and get broken, which forces the authors to come up with new and interesting ways to prevent their solution from being broken.

The same cannot be said from "our" side, us reverse engineers. Most people keep their tools private and we have a stagnation of publicly available tools to help us combat these new solutions and techniques.
Do you know why? Money, Denuvo is paid, cracking is something people do for free of charge, there is little incentive to release their internal tools or to release docs or even bother .

Until then, this "prediction" of 3DM might have some merit.

SecuROM v8.10 might pack more than I thought.

Once you bypass the anti-debug APIs, you realise that bypassing those is the easy part, now I feel a bit ashamed that it took me 30 days just to bypass them. Oh well.

I've identified a few threads that are started before OEP which are essential, I've only just started to analyse them, they are obfuscated so reading the assembly will be difficult.

A small sidenote unrelated to all of this. There is a method on the internet for finding out the version of securom, searching for the string 'AddD' will show a version number next to it, for Securom v8, this method no longer works, there is a version displayed, but it's not correct.

Spotcheck/Triggers in SecuROM.

Spotcheck/Triggers are what the developer of SecuROM, Robert Yates, calls the piece of code which is responsible for altering the game if tampering of any kind is detected.

Altering like making the final boss in Crysis 3 invincible, or making the ball in Fifa 14 unusually large. These are not bugs/glitches, they are intentional. They are, however not always caused by tampering with the game, but sometimes because of an installation gone wrong with the game, and usually a reinstall should resolve this. Worst case scenario, it's because of some piece of malware running on the system.

Once I was able to run the game under a debugger, it would suddenly get terminated after a while. I identified two threads that were responsible for this and brutally killed them, this didn't affect the game and it was no longer being terminated.