Mobile Game Security

Know Every Player. Stop the Ones Who Cheat.

Mobile Protect runs inside your game and tags every player session as it happens. Anti-cheat, ad bypass and purchase bypass protection runs on the device. Fake players, spoofed locations and bots are scored and flagged, so you stop paying for players who were never real.

Live Players Example Game · every session tagged Live
KX Player 10422 Lisbon, PT Clean session 0.8 Clean
MB Player 48213 São Paulo, BR GameGuardian Speed hack 9.4 Blocked
TS Player 77310 Device farm Emulator Bot gestures 9.1 Flagged
AR Player 30587 Chicago, US GPS spoofed 7.8 Flagged
JL Player 52964 Manila, PH Ads stripped Modded APK 8.6 Blocked
NP Player 61148 Austin, US Clean session 1.2 Clean
In-App Purchase Revenue
Premium content unlocks only for players who paid.
Ad Revenue
Ad-stripped builds are stopped, so ads keep reaching real players.
User-Acquisition Spend
Fake installs are flagged before they drain campaign budgets.
Fair Play
Paying players never compete against edited stats.
Live Session

Watch One Session. Every Attack Caught.

A cheater rarely tries just one thing. Follow one player through a level. Mobile Protect blocks what tampers with the game, scores what points to the player, and ties every signal to the player ID.

Blocked

1 · Ad ID Stripped

A modded build strips the ad unit ID, so the level-end ad never serves. The modified binary is caught at runtime.

Blocked

2 · Purchase Bypass

A patched receipt tries to unlock the Gem Chest for free. The purchase is rejected and the content stays locked.

Blocked

3 · Cheat Engine

GameGuardian edits the coin count in memory. The edit is blocked and the value reverts.

Flagged

4 · Bot Taps

Every jump lands at exactly 800 ms. The pattern points to the player, so the player is scored and flagged.

Blocked attacks never reach the game. The risk score climbs when the behavior points to the player.

Clone Defense

Harden Your Game Against AI Clones.

AI tools have made it fast to decompile a mobile game and ship a knock-off, and indie studios feel it first when a copy lands next to them in the store. Mobile Protect hardens your game from the inside, layering reverse engineering detection, anti-tampering and Data Theorem dynamic obfuscation so there is nothing easy to lift.

Three Layers, One Hardened Game

1 · Reverse Engineering Detection

Debuggers, hooks, memory dumps and instrumentation used to map your game are detected and blocked on the device.

2 · Dynamic Obfuscation

Code, strings and control flow re-scramble every session, so a decompiler never sees the same game twice.

3 · Anti-Tampering

A rebuilt or re-signed copy of your game fails its integrity check at launch and is blocked.

User Acquisition

Stop Paying for Players Who Aren't Real.

Device farms, emulators and bots install your game from paid campaigns, trigger the payout and never play. Every one of them inflates CPI and skews the data your bids run on.

  1. 1 Score every new install From the first session, Mobile Protect checks for emulators, device farms, spoofed GPS and bot gestures.
  2. 2 Flag the fake players Each fake install is tied to a player ID and the signals that gave it away.
  3. 3 Recover the spend Your UA team and attribution partners get the evidence to stop paying for fake installs and keep ROAS and LTV models clean.
Spring UA Campaign Example Game · new installs scored from the first session Illustrative data
Source Installs Flagged as fake Top signal
Network A 6,200 410 Emulators
Network B 3,900 1,020 Device farm
Network C 2,300 60 Bot gestures
1,490 fake installs flagged Player IDs and signals sent to your UA team and attribution partner
Impossible Players

Catch Players Doing the Impossible.

Some patterns only show up across the whole player base: one cracked build spreading worldwide, a phone in Chicago and Tokyo in the same minute, dozens of devices in one room acting as one. Mobile Protect sees each from inside the session.

From Signal to Action

Blocked in the Game. Flagged to Your Team.

Mobile Protect acts on the device where it should and hands everything else to you. Cheats that alter the game are blocked automatically. Fraud tied to a player is scored and flagged so your team decides what happens next.

Automatic

Blocked in the Game

Anything that tampers with the game itself is stopped on the device, while the player is still in the session.

  • Cheat engines and memory editors
  • Speed hacks
  • In-app purchase and paywall bypass
  • Modded and ad-stripped builds
  • Debuggers and instrumentation
Your Call

Scored and Flagged to Your Team

Player-level fraud is scored and sent with the player ID and signals. You choose the action: ban, withhold rewards, exclude the install from attribution, or keep watching.

  • Fake installs and bot players
  • Emulators
  • Device farms
  • Location spoofing
  • Suspicious in-game behavior
Real-time fraud scoring API Your SIEM Attribution partners Live-ops dashboards
Built for Live Games

Protection Players Never Notice.

Detection runs asynchronously inside the game, with minimal battery and network impact and no effect on frame rates. Protection starts the moment the SDK initializes.

Step 1 · Add the SDK
pod 'DataTheoremMobileProtect'
Step 2 · Initialize at launch
MobileProtect.initialize(apiKey)
Art, the Data Theorem knight, playing a mobile game with his shield beside him
500 KB
SDK footprint on Android, 500 KB to 1 MB on iOS
<1%
CPU overhead during gameplay
2–4 hrs
Typical integration, no changes to game logic
10M+
Monthly active users: the title scale it is built for
One SDK for Games Built On Unity iOS Android React Native Flutter

Fair play is essential to retaining our players' trust. Data Theorem Mobile Protect helped us identify cheating attempts, block application tampering, and prevent unauthorized access to premium content through in-app purchase bypass. It has become a key component of our mobile security strategy.

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