
Top Game Modding Techniques and How to Prevent Them
Cheating in mobile games is a huge issue that plagues every mobile game developer and publisher. In this blog, I describing the most common cheating tools and how they work.
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Game Security Engineer, Esports Platform
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Appdome's modular architecture allows mobile brands and businesses to deploy any number of Anti-Cheat Detection plugins inside mobile apps. These plugins use a dynamic defense model that analyzes behavioral anomalies, identifies threats, and filters out false positives, all without a server or external attestation. If you want to eliminate big Epics and manual work in fighting the battle against mobile game cheats, Appdome is the right choice.
Mobile cheat engines and platforms are a big business but that doesn't mean that you have to lose money or players to them if you don't want to. As the game developer, you may want to block commercial cheat engines, modding platforms and app player emulators, or charge mobile app customers for using your app with cheats apps, mods and modding platforms like Game Guardian, Cheat Engine, Frida, BlueStacks, Memu, Nox and more. With Appdome, you're in control and know exactly when and how mods, modding attacks are used with your app. Block, allow or upsell, it's up to you.
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Appdome's Mobile Anti-Cheat features protect mobile games from mods and modding. Modding allows players to modify game mechanics, memory, or payouts, perform purchase emulation, adjust difficulty levels, change player balances, introduce new gameplay modes, or alter progression systems, including distributing cheats or hacks that give players unfair advantages, such as unlimited resources, invincibility, or bypassing in-game restrictions. Detect when modding techniques or tools are used, gather data, and control the user experience to deliver the right defense for your brand.
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The tools used to generate fake clicks, fake events and accounts, spoof SDKs, cheat mobile games, or gain unfair advantage in mobile app economies often leverage injection attacks in Android & iOS mobile apps. With Appdome's mobile cheat prevention, you can stop all major injection attack vectors including static and dynamic mobile code injection, process injections, DB injection, memory injection, key injection, as well as methods and tools used in injection attacks including Magisk, Magisk Hide, Magisk Manager, Frida, hooking frameworks and more.
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Appdome's Mobile Anti-Cheat features eliminate the risk of fake versions of your mobile game being created and distributed to your players. Fake version of your mobile game can lead to revenue loss, ad fraud, lost in-app purchases and more. When mobile end users download fake versions of your game, attackers profit at your expense, depriving your mobile game developers and publishers of revenue. Fake versions of your mobile game can also tarnish your brand's reputation via inferior or malicious experiences. Start defending your mobile game brand, revenue, and IP today.
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Appdome's Prevent Speed Hacking feature detects and defends mobile games from speed hacking methods and tools. Stopping speed attacks in your mobile game is essential for maintaining fair play, preserving the integrity of your game's mechanics, and ensuring a positive experience for all players. Players who use speed hacks to progress faster or gain access to premium features without paying diminish the value of in-game purchases and may discourage legitimate players from spending money on the game. Detect when speed hacks are used, gather data, and deliver the right defense for your brand.
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Appdome's Synthetic Fraud defense features detect when external processes or tools are used to enter fake events, activities or taps into mobile games and apps. With this defense, mobile game developers and publishers can detect auto-clickers and emulated actions that deliver unfair advantage to mobile app users and players. For example, auto-clickers can be used to earn points, grab gigs, horde limited merchandise or deals, create fake accounts, or receive gifts and bypass ads. With Appdome, you can build mobile apps that defend against this class of cheating and fraud quickly and easily.
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With Appdome Threat-Events™, mobile brands and developers can get rich threat data directly from the Appdome framework in the app, keep full control over the user experience, and enjoy multiple threat response options when mobile cheating is detected. Threat-Events™ enables the app to plug into and control Appdome's anti-cheat detection methods and threat data, and use the threat data to tailor in-app responses and mitigation workflows based on the specific mobile cheating method present in the Application lifecycle.
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Inside a highly demanding DevOps lifecycle, getting mobile cheat prevention right is extremely hard. Mobile apps are updated 24x-36x a year, the Android & iOS OS changes frequently, and threats evolve constantly. Appdome uses AI to eliminate this complexity, implement and maintain each anti-cheat defense up to date, and support the mobile engineering team's autonomy and release cycles. Full support for the Mobile DevOps tool chain and best practices is a standard part of using Appdome.
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With Appdome, you can meet Anti-Cheat Defense requirements without sacrificing your engineering freedom, development choices, other features, or the user experience.
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