Infamous Denuvo Cracker Disappears, Site Diverts to Government Portal

[Matrix]

Concerns are mounting after Voksi, the infamous games cracker that has hit Denuvo-protected games hard in recent months, disappeared early yesterday. Normally a short hiatus wouldn't result in too much worry but the Bulgarian's site has disappeared too and now diverts to the Ministry of the Interior in Bulgaria.

Late last week, the now-infamous cracker known as Voksi hit the headlines once again after defeating the latest variant of the Denuvo anti-tamper technology.

The 21-year-old Bulgarian has made it a personal mission to bring down the world’s most hated anti-piracy system and regularly sets to work when a protected game is released. Last week’s successful attack on Sonic Mania Plus was an important step but those who know Voksi best understand the guy rarely rests.

Soon after he cracked the Denuvo protection on Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, the latest updates of Tekken 7 and Injustice 2, and delivered a new crack for Prey and its latest DLC.

“There is no point of using Denuvo anymore,” he told us late last week.

This unprecedented level of activity has led some to joke that Voksi’s not a human but some kind of robot that’s around all the time and doesn’t need to sleep. However, throughout the course of yesterday concerns have been mounting that all is not well in Bulgaria.

Voksi was last seen online very early yesterday morning. He’s not been seen in any of his usual hangouts since and no one we’ve spoken to has heard or seen any news. While this isn’t alarming in itself, other developments seem more serious.

Voksi is the leader of cracking group REVOLT which has its home at the Revolt.group forum. Yesterday and seemingly coinciding with Voksi’s disappearance, the REVOLT forum disappeared without warning. Again, this isn’t extraordinary when taken on its own but real concern is building over what appears to have replaced it.

Instead of being greeted by the familiar forum, visitors to Revolt.group (RVT) are now being redirected to mvr.bg, the domain that identifies the website of Bulgaria’s Ministry of the Interior. Obviously, this link with the authorities is not what most people hope to see when they try to visit Voksi’s home.

 

Definitely not the Revolt forum
 

 

While domain redirects in the case of coordinated anti-piracy busts are fairly common, they are usually more informative than simply linking to the homepage of a government site. They tend to point to a specific message which can be both informative and a means to inform visitors that the game is up.

The way things stand, that doesn’t appear to be the case here. As far as we can see, the Ministry of the Interior site doesn’t carry any message or announcement that can be in anyway connected with some kind of raid or bust so it’s possible that something else is going on.

Previously, the Revolt.group domain pointed to an IP address in Sofia, Bulgaria. Now, however, it redirects to an IP address/server registered to SoftLayer in the United States which appears to be responsible for the redirect to the Ministry of the Interior. When taken together, none of this fits any expected patterns.

TorrentFreak has spoken with individuals concerned about Voksi’s whereabouts but all say (including some close to him) that they have no idea what has happened to him or the Revolt forum. Directly, we have two key ways of contacting the cracker and thus far, neither has been met with any success.

So, for now at least, it looks like a waiting game. We can confirm that Voksi is a real person so it’s possible he’s taken a break from his 24/7 cracking activities to recharge his batteries. Sadly, that doesn’t explain the issue with the forum. Other possibilities are also under consideration, including some kind of hack, hoax, or pending surprise reveal. Only time will tell.

Updates as we get them

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[KXR75]

When denuvo can't protect the game, so they have to attack the man himself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/91t0b8/what_happened_to_revolt_and_me/

[steven36]

2 hours ago, Phantom Blade said:

When denuvo can't protect the game, so they have to attack the man himself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/91t0b8/what_happened_to_revolt_and_me/

 Yes he got busted and Bulgaria was to cheap  to have a real anti piracy page to deface the forum even. This guy was not smart enough to hide his personal info from law enforcement and Anti piracy raid people all the time for making this mistake. It's more conman with  video piracy and kodi than games because a lot of games are cracked by the real scene who are very careful  and not so much by  Independent web team crackers  who don't bother to hide there real info. 

[KXR75]

49 minutes ago, steven36 said:

Yes he got busted and Bulgaria was to cheap  to have a real anti piracy page to deface the forum even. This guy was not smart enough to hide his personal info from law enforcement and Anti piracy raid people all the time for making this mistake. It's more conman with  video piracy and kodi than games because a lot of games are cracked by the real scene who are very careful  and not so much by  Independent web team crackers  who don't bother to hide there real info. 

Yap, unlike the most scene group (CPY, CODEX, STP). He actively communicate in forum, answer questions in social media, inform about the "project" he was working and leaking how to crack Denuvo on YT.

Baldman which was on hiatus good at keeping his privacy.
Privacy and identity is very important and number one.

[Mystique]

Voksi may have learned the craft but he never learned the trade.
He seemed very gifted but once you enter that realm there is no immunity, he should have been aware of that and perhaps one of the teams should have nudged him in the right direction to go underground in which case the name Voksi would have perished been no more but his work would have carried on.

 

[DKT27]

This is sad. I never used his release but I knew he released a lot of them. While I completely agree he should not do that anymore, I think if it's possible for him, then secretly train others about it.

 

A lot of people are calling for a boycott of buying games which contains this crap. Let me also remind everyone that one of the highly sold games did not have any of the crap in it.