SteamPunks: A release group that emerged from nowhere, managed to break the popular Dishonored 2 game but in a way very different from others. The unknown group SteamPunks released the first KeyGen (from the Key Generator) for Denuvo licenses.
It is known that the protection offered by the anti-piracy system by Denuvo, is the best out there at the moment, and the cracking methods presented so far have not been perfect.
DISHONORED.2-STEAMPUNKS, released on top-site and released for the first time in the tent rather marks the beginning of the end of the protection of Denuvo.
The cracking scene is known to keep its gates closed to the general public, and the main players are groups we know from long ago: ZWT, Core, DEViANCE, FAiRLiGHT, RELOADED, Razor 1911 and many others. The new SteamRunks group seems to appear out of nowhere, but on the other hand the crackers, or the cracker behind it, are probably relevant from the scene.
Traffic nfo shows that the band's members were related to the scene, as the record seems to have been created by a relative.
But what does the Dishonored 2 keygen do? Η version by the SteamPunks team contains code that allows the user to generate Denuvo licenses per hardware, i.e. for each computer they use.
It should be noted that creating a keygen requires several programming, or reverse engineering, skills. The key maker, instead of tampering with a few bytes of a dll or exe to bypass the protection with dubious results, should read and analyze the entire operating-game code to find out under what factors a key which unlocks all program features. So there are many crackers, but few keygeners, as the whole process takes time and knowledge.
