3DM will stop cracking for a whole year!

In a surprise announcement, 3DM cracking group have said that they will stop cracking single-player games under the pretext that they want to see if sales of games increase.

Why did I say pretext? Remember they last said they had difficulty cracking the latest iteration of Denuvo? As of now I propose either of the following reasons:

1. 3DM cannot crack Denuvo and want to work on it for the next year. This sounds more plausible. They might even drop out of the scene completely, only to re-emerge years later when things around Denuvo had quieted down.
2. They are genuinely doing this for the stated reason.
3. They have come to an understanding with Denuvo GmbH/VMProtect to cease their activities for now.

More on this here.

Denuvo and VMProtect are the same?

Recently I've been reading on Denuvo, and how certain code seems not similar but identical to that of VMProtect. Russian websites are also saying that Denuvo<=>VMProtect indicating that perhaps the two companies are sharing the same code base. That certain features in VMProtect appear in Denuvo and disappear in VMProtect, and vice-versa.

Here is the article in question (Russian).

Denuvo cracked?

According to this article http://www.dsogaming.com/news/report-denuvo-drm-system-has-been-cracked/, some part of Denuvo has been cracked.

Well done 3DM. However, there is still no official crack released, I expect fake torrents to be appearing pretending to be a crack from 3DM, they will likely not be, what they will be is malicious.

But while at it, I do want to mention that when it comes to 64-bit practical RE, the tools are just now being developed. It is only in IDA 6.6 that an x64 decompiler was added, but for us mortals, we can never buy this. Personally, I am a fan of Ollydbg, but I admit it has faults and limitations, one of them being no support for x64 RE, x64dbg is trying to fix that, but it will take a long time before it is truly useful for that.