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  1. Consumer impact summary
  2. Incidents
  3. Genshin Impact anti-cheat used to bypass anti-virus in ransomware attack (August 2022)
  4. Further reading
  5. References
Genshin Impact
Basic Information
Release Year 2020
Product Type Video Games
In Production Yes
Official Website https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/

Genshin Impact is an always online open world free-to-play action role-playing gacha video game developed by MiHoYo.

Consumer impact summary

  • Privacy: Genshin Impact despite primarily being a single player title with some co-op elements utilises kernel level anti-cheat.
  • Control: Users must have the anti-cheat running while playing the game. Prior to a September 2020 update, it also remained running after the game was closed or uninstalled.[1]
  • Security: Kernel level anti-cheats, have the highest amount of privilege on the running machine — and the greatest vulnerability should it be hacked.

Incidents

Genshin Impact anti-cheat used to bypass anti-virus in ransomware attack (August 2022)

In 2022, Genshin Impact's anti-cheat was used in a ransomware attack vector. This was originally reported on by TrendMicro.[2] During this period of vulnerability, Genshin Impact's anti-cheat was utilized to bypass anti-virus software, allowing attackers to remotely deploy ransomware payloads to an affected user's computer.

Genshin Impact's public relations team, Hoyoverse PR, responded to multiple news outlets with a generic answer that seemed to confirm the validity of the claims by TrendMicro.[3][4]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "About Our Anti-Cheat System (Updated)". Genshin Impact. 28 Sep 2020. Archived from the original on 1 Feb 2023. Retrieved 22 Sep 2025.
  2. ↑ Soliven, Ryan (24 Aug 2022). "Ransomware Actor Abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat Driver to Kill Antivirus". TrendMicro. Archived from the original on 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 22 Sep 2025.
  3. ↑ Bolding, Jonathan (28 Aug 2022). "Ransomware abuses Genshin Impact's kernel mode anti-cheat to bypass antivirus protection". PCGamer. p. 1. Archived from the original on 7 Dec 2025. Retrieved 22 Sep 2025.
  4. ↑ Toulas, Bill (25 Aug 2022). "Hackers abuse Genshin Impact anti-cheat system to disable antivirus". Bleeping Computer. Archived from the original on 12 Oct 2025. Retrieved 22 Sep 2025.
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