Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent
Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, which develops the incredibly popular Fortnite Battle Royale computer game. Epic Games happens to also develop the influential tool Unreal Engine, which is used widely throughout industry to produce interactive 3D applications.<p>Fortnite BR, like other competitive online games, runs anti-cheat software in-order to detect cheaters. Fornite BR happens to use Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye [1] [2].<p>Anti-cheat software runs with very high privilege. More importantly, with many anti-cheat software, every session a new binary payload is downloaded directly from the internet.<p>Anti-cheat software seems like a great platform to launch targeted malware in-order to achieve a beachhead on a computer network: highly targeted, and effectively undetectable.<p>I would expect most software developers don&#x27;t sandbox their gaming machines from their work-from-home environments.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;FortNiteBR&#x2F;comments&#x2F;82xyhb&#x2F;launch_error_easyanticheat_not_installed&#x2F;dvdng3a&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;FortNiteBR&#x2F;comments&#x2F;82xyhb&#x2F;launch_e...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;tech&#x2F;7446514&#x2F;fortnite-cheats-beware-epic-games-buys-game-security-firm-kamu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;tech&#x2F;7446514&#x2F;fortnite-cheats-beware...</a>