Sony’s DRM Rootkit Used for WoW Hacking

By now all three of you who read this site are familiar with the tale of how Sony released a music cd (by Van Zant, some crap country band) that includes a DRM rootkit.

What you don’t know is that certain enterprising World of Warcraft hackers have used this nice, working Ring0 rootkit to hide their nasty WoW cheating programs from Blizzard’s “Warden” cheat detection processes.