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According to TorrentFreak, the long-awaiting stealth game Hitman 2 — which comes 'protected' by the latest variant of Denuvo (v5.3) — leaked online. Aside from having its protection circumvented, this happened three days before the title's official launch on November 13.
It appears that a relatively new cracking group called FCKDRM obtained a version of Hitman 2 that was only available to those who pre-ordered the game. While several groups have been chipping away at Denuvo for some time, FCKDRM is a new entrant (at least by branding) to the cracking scene. (Note: The group is not related to the FCKDRM initiative, an anti-DRM site launched by GOG.com, even though it does use the logo.)
It should be noted that the owners of Denuvo released marketing material a few months ago suggesting that even 4 days of protection (actually even hours according to them) is worth the price of their DRM. (However, no mention of -3 days.)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @01:57PM
It's not like those can't be cracked, or in most cases just NOP:ed out of existence since all they mostly do or did was just check to see if something was there or not and not actually doing any advanced checking. Mostly old dongles are just a massive pain for the user as if the dongle is lost or breaks the entire product becomes worthless.
If one wants to one could technically say that a lot of these new Steam or always connected game protections are a form of network license to -- after all you have to be online, connected to steam to buy and run the software. A few rare once allow you to run it in offline mode. Yet those get removed all the time, worthless resource hogs that they are.