Just One Hour After Release! Resident Evil 9's Five-Layer DRM Protection Completely Cracked—Denuvo's Fastest Breaking Record

Well, well, well! Capcom just got a serious reality check!

Renowned hacker KiriGiri announced that the team has successfully bypassed the Denuvo encryption protection of Resident Evil 9: Requiem using hypervisor technology, with full compatibility on both AMD and Intel platforms!

Here's the kicker — how long did the crack take? One hour. Just one hour after the game launched! KiriGiri had previously claimed it would take "anywhere from a day to a week," only to shatter his own estimate and set the fastest record ever for breaking Denuvo encryption. All I can say about this move is... respect.

Think Capcom came unprepared? They rolled out five layers of protection: Steam platform base protection, Denuvo encryption, Capcom's proprietary DRM, VMProtect virtual machine protection, and SteamStub encryption — five nested layers wrapped up as tight as could be.

And the result? One hour.

Resident Evil: Requiem is Capcom's canonical ninth entry in the series, created to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary. It launched simultaneously on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2 on February 27, 2026 — meant to be the series' "requiem." Yet before the requiem could even finish playing, the protection was already gone. This incident once again thrusts PC platform anti-piracy strategies and the real-world effectiveness of Denuvo technology into the spotlight. The golden reputation of Denuvo encryption is genuinely getting harder and harder to uphold.