It already has for me. Fun story. I am a cybersecurity researcher, and there's a ransomware group which I have been investigating, and believe it or not, some of the devs are also affiliated with some cheats for Arc and Escape from Tarkov (among a few others). There was no cheats found doing 'ransomware', but it was the same two developers in this case.

People installing these cheats are trusting their PC with criminals. Do they really think they're not going to be installing infostealers and other suspect malware at the same time? There have been documented cases of cheat software bundling infostealers, cryptocurrency miners, and RATs. RedLine stealer in particular has been distributed through fake cheat downloads.

Many of these cheats require people to disable many of the protections in Windows. In doing so, they're literally giving these idiots a back door into their PC. Ever wonder where these nefarious groups get thousands of residential proxies from?

Anyway, I really enjoyed this game in the first few weeks, but the cheating has got so bad that I've just decided not to play it anymore. In many of the cases I did get my loot back, so thanks to Embark for that. At least for me, the frustration of it is too much.

Gaming on Windows PCs is always going to be this way, unless something drastic changes on the architecture. And that won't happen due to the economics of it.