I wouldn't even call it "anti-cheat". It's a (online) single-player game with co-op challenges. There's no PvP, leaderboards, joint loot, nothing. "Cheating" would just involve unlocking characters or faking damage.

It's more akin to SecuROM and co. than BattlEye, in a way. (You can't OpenProcess(...) the game EXE) But either way it's completely useless and unnecessary.

"Running complex programs with network access with system priviledges is a good idea" /s

People never learn. They don't have time for this.

> I'm honestly surprised it took this long.

It didn't take this long, though. This kind of thing happens all the time. Here it is happening to the same game back in 2020: https://github.com/Luohuayu/evil-mhyprot-cli

you need administrator privileges to load a driver anyways, you're fucked if malware has admin permissions