It could happen, but especially if the game has at least some popularity on a platform like Steam I expect someone more tech savvy than average would smell a rat and start looking, or ask around, and it’d be found out.
I don’t know exactly how those work, but I imagine on top of weird CPU usage it would make very suspicious network calls too. There’s always a guy that sees stuff like that and goes “where the fuck are my cycles and packets going?”
Yeah you’d think, but when I worked in cybersecurity the thing that freaked me out the most is how often this just doesn’t happen. It can happen immediately or it can take ages.
It could happen, but especially if the game has at least some popularity on a platform like Steam I expect someone more tech savvy than average would smell a rat and start looking, or ask around, and it’d be found out.
I don’t know exactly how those work, but I imagine on top of weird CPU usage it would make very suspicious network calls too. There’s always a guy that sees stuff like that and goes “where the fuck are my cycles and packets going?”
Yeah you’d think, but when I worked in cybersecurity the thing that freaked me out the most is how often this just doesn’t happen. It can happen immediately or it can take ages.