Codex claims to have been able to break the security of the windows store

Video game hacking group CODEX claims that it has been able to successfully break the 5 layers of protection that come with games published on the Windows Store in Windows 10.

CODEX manages to break the security of the Windows Store

The CODEX group lists these five layers of protection as "MSStore, UWP, EAppX, XBLive and Arxan". Arxan works like an anti-piracy system in a similar way to Denuvo, the system that has made things very difficult for crackers in the most important games that have been on the market for several years.

One of the CODEX members named Vorxi has shown his contempt for Arxan saying that " It is the Denuvo equivalent that bloats the executable with useless virtual machines that only slow down the game."

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Specifically, the Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection game would have been the victim of CODEX, once the five security layers of the Windows Store have been broken, it is expected that more and more games will see their security measures broken, in the same way that happens when a version of Denuvo first drops.

“This is the first scene release of a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) game. Therefore, we would like to point out that, of course, it will only work on Windows 10. This particular game requires Windows 10 version 1607 or later. ”

If the CODEX group's claims are real, it may be a snag for Microsoft's plans to attract more developers to publish their apps and games on the Windows Store.

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