DMA Cheats Spread Through China's PC Gaming Scene
Because the reading, analysis, and input all happen on hardware outside the gaming PC, the monitoring software that most online games rely on has little to catch, which is why Tencent's game security report treats DMA cheats as a major threat.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
A report on the Japanese outlet ASCII.jp describes DMA cheats spreading in China's PC games. The setup uses three pieces of hardware: a DMA card that reads PC memory, a KMBOX that emulates keyboard and mouse input, and a Fuser that overlays analyzed information on the game screen. Analysis runs on a second PC, which makes the cheat hard for programs on the gaming PC to detect. Devices are sold on e-commerce sites such as Taobao.
Materials for the setup are sold openly on e-commerce sites, according to ASCII.jp. A complete kit needs more than the card itself: a DMA card, a KMBOX input emulator, a Fuser display device, a second PC, and analysis software. Xilinx's Artix-7 FPGA, now under AMD, appears in one example of a DMA card. Tencent's 2025 Game Security White Paper names DMA cheats as a major threat. The problem reaches past shooters. In survival and exploration games, knowing where players, items, and resources sit already decides the outcome.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.