> "While the anti-cheats are allowed in the kernel by Microsoft, the study also revealed that cheat software commonly uses weaknesses in Windows protections to ‘inject’ itself into the kernel and gain higher privileges. Many techniques mirror what is commonly seen in the domains of malware and anti-virus, with a difference in motivation."
> "This kernel injection technique has previously been observed in advanced ransomware attacks to disable anti-malware protections before the main attack."
The goal of cheats is to make money not to hack PCs.
> Ransomware Actor Abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat Driver to Kill Antivirus
And we all know this is fully hypocrit. "Computer security" does not exist, but for sure, adding a "gaming" _kernel module_ won't improve anything there... (irony).