In addition to common cheating methods such as memory modification and hacking, the black and grey industry for games also use ‘special plug-ins’ with relatively high barriers to entry. Special plug-ins are cheats customised for specific game play, also known as ‘injection cheats’.

Among the security risks faced by games, in addition to common cheats such as memory modification, speed hack and hacking, there is also a category of seriously harmful cheats - “injection cheats”.