FastPokeMap Shuts Down Pokémon Go Map Scanner Again
FastPokeMap are forced to go offline again as Niantic rolled out a new security measure to stop third party services from accessing their servers.
FastPokeMap are forced to go offline again as Niantic rolled out a new security measure to stop third party services from accessing their servers.
FastPokeMap, the biggest Pokémon Go map scanner is working again. After being offline for more than two weeks, FastPokeMap is back on Sunday, October 23.
FastPokeMap will likely be back online by this weekend. The developer of FPM just tweeted that the last piece of the puzzle has been found. They have fully cracked the new encryption which was released on October 7 by Niantic.
Niantic has made it a point to block all third party developers from accessing their servers. The implementation of reCaptcha system only managed to slow down bots and scanners. But the continuation of these third party services are very costly as developers have to spend a lot of money to have the reCaptcha solved.
Niantic managed to take down all third party scanners with their recent security update. Bots did not escape the onslaught as well. In order to bypass the new API, reverse engineer is needed. The lack of interest from reversing community is troubling, but this is not surprising as Niantic has made it very clear that they are not happy with third party services accessing their servers.
Niantic has just activated the Captcha system which crippled third party apps, botters, and scanners.
In the fight to prevent third party apps and services to access their data, Pokémon Go developer has tightened their security by enabling Captcha if any unusual behaviour is detected to verify that it is not controlled by machines. The biggest Pokémon Go map scanner, FastPokeMap is still working but only at about 40-50 percent capacity.
In the latest Pokémon Go update, Niantic has enforced their security and added captcha to prevent game cheaters from using bots and other third party trackers to gain unfair advantage. But the catch is that they haven’t enforced it back then. The new security is found in the coding waiting for Niantic to flip the switch on their side to activate it.
The most popular Pokémon Go map scanner, FastPokeMap has tightened their security and closed down third party API access to stop others from scraping their data. This means that many trackers that depend on their API will stop working.
Pokémon Go is still the top five grossing app on the App Store even after the craze has some how calmed down. The fun part of the game is going out and catching Pokémon which brings back nostalgic memories.
Part of the reason to go out and catch Pokémon, apart from growing a stronger team for gym battles, is to fill up the Pokédex. Of course, it will get more and more difficult as you progress. Not to mention that some Pokémon are region specific. So unless you travel around the world, there is no way to catch ’em all. That is one of the reason why some will resort to cheating.
Pokémon Go is a very popular real world game of today. But as with any successful game, cheating is a common problem which follow suit. Niantic Labs have taken action against some of these cheaters by dropping the ban hammer on players guilty of using cheat tools.
As of version 0.35.0, a new method for fighting bots was discovered in the apk – captcha. When the server detects abnormal player behavior, they could be prompted with a captcha screen. These are mostly used for fighting with the bots and trackers.
For version 0.37.0, rooted Android devices (and jailbroken iOS devices) are blocked from loading the game.
We found more anti cheating security added into the latest version of Pokémon Go 0.39.0: