Slot Machine Rng Hack
This trick used to work with real-life slot machines. And not only with slots, so it could work with the machines where you need a coin to get something - pay for transport, get a chocolate bar. The idea was to tie a string around the coin. Now users could pull the coin off after depositing and use it again. Of course, the hack has nothing in.
- All slots at online casinos work using RNG or Random Number generator software. This is to ensure that the outcome is not fixed by software providers. The good news is that most trustworthy online casinos will have their RNG games audited by third parties such as eCogra to ensure that game outcomes are fair.
- Slot Machine RNG Hack– we all know that casino games make use of a random number generator (RNG) to determine results. Basically, if you are able to determine the mathematical pattern (or algorithm) the number generators are using to determine results, you will be able to calculate when to make larger bets for bigger wins.
- How One Man Hacked His Way Into the Slot-Machine Industry by Brendan I. Koerner (37.9 MB.mp3)Subscribe: Wired Features PodcastAs Latvia became more open and prosperous, slot machines.
- A slot machine (American English), known variously as a fruit machine (British English), puggy (Scottish English), the slots (Canadian English and American English), poker machine/pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English), fruities (British English) or slots (American English), is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers. Slot machines are also known.
Predicting a Slot Machine's PRNG
Wired is reporting on a new slot machine hack. A Russian group has reverse-engineered a particular brand of slot machine — from Austrian company Novomatic — and can simulate and predict the pseudo-random number generator.
The cell phones from Pechanga, combined with intelligence from investigations in Missouri and Europe, revealed key details. According to Willy Allison, a Las Vegas-based casino security consultant who has been tracking the Russian scam for years, the operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine’s pattern based on what they know about the model’s pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.
“The normal reaction time for a human is about a quarter of a second, which is why they do that,” says Allison, who is also the founder of the annual World Game Protection Conference. The timed spins are not always successful, but they result in far more payouts than a machine normally awards: Individual scammers typically win more than $10,000 per day. (Allison notes that those operatives try to keep their winnings on each machine to less than $1,000, to avoid arousing suspicion.) A four-person team working multiple casinos can earn upwards of $250,000 in a single week.
The easy solution is to use a random-number generator that accepts local entropy, like Fortuna. But there’s probably no way to easily reprogram those old machines.
Posted on February 8, 2017 at 6:48 AM • 31 Comments
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-alex-the-russian-casino-hacker-who-makes-millions-targeting-slot-machines/
What an interesting read.
Alex, the hacker in the story, claims he has reverse-engineered programmable random-number generators (PRNGs), allowing him to identify when a slot machine will generate a big win. And, according to the story,
Aristocrat admits he was perhaps successful on some of its older slot machines (many of which are still in use at many American and international casinos). Alex claims to have worked as a cryptologist for FSB (the Russian equivalent of the CIA/NSA). If Alex is correct, then all of us should probably be worried about a lot more than just jiggered slot machines. As computer technology increasingly imbeds itself into every aspect of our lives, we become more at risk of people like Alex (and government agencies with whom they may work) attacking more than slot machines. Every level of government finds it next to impossible to protect their critical computer systems amidst today's rapid technological advances. These vulnerabilities put at risk systems such as electric distribution networks, for example. Might system weaknesses allow an 'Alex' (individual or government entity) the ability to infect the computer controlling a city's traffic lights, shutting them down (or, worse, turning all lights green)? I think we've already seen where FAA computers have experienced problems (whether or not actually 'hacked').
And, our government apparently requires technology companies to provide 'back doors' it can use to access otherwise 'secure' data. This puts everyone at risk if others identify how to compromise security critical to American infrastructure, all implemented so often now with out-of-date technology designed with 'back-door' security flaws.
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There are plenty of vulnerable RNG's out there.
He targets older machines. New machines, presumably, have better RNGs.
Note:
That article is getting a lot of traction. It was featured in today's CDC Gaming Reports email news brief. And I saw it on the 360 Vegas twitter.
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Wiz -
He targets older machines. New machines, presumably, have better RNGs.
The article mentioned 50 Dragons, which I believe is a fairly modern game.
That article is getting a lot of traction. It was featured in today's CDC Gaming Reports email news brief. And I saw it on the 360 Vegas twitter.
Yes, it was an entertaining read but I'm still skeptical of the claims. Furthermore, I think Aristocrat would pay up if it believed the claims to be valid.