In the United States and similar laws internationally (EU Copyright Directive), modifying a program's memory behavior without authorization violates the CFAA. While no one is going to federal prison for cheating in Assault Cube, a game developer could pursue civil litigation for circumvention of security measures. In 2023, a cheat seller for Call of Duty was ordered to pay $3 million in damages. The law applies even to free games.
Most modern games (like Overwatch 2 or CS2) obfuscate memory addresses using encryption or dynamic offsets. Assault Cube does not. It uses static memory addresses. For example, the local player’s health might always be at 0x00F4A9B8 . This makes writing an aimbot for Assault Cube roughly as difficult as writing a "Hello World" program for an experienced programmer. assault cube aimbot