Activision says it’s fixed an anti-cheat hack in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone

Activision says it has “disabled a workaround to a detection system” successful Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone that led to morganatic players getting banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The institution says the occupation “impacted a tiny fig of morganatic subordinate accounts,” and each accounts affected were restored.

However, zebleer, who runs the Phantom Overlay store selling cheats, claims the occupation is overmuch bigger than Activision’s station makes it seem. In a elaborate station connected X, they constitute that erstwhile Ricochet scanned the representation of a player’s machine to find known cheat software, 1 of the signatures it scanned for was a plaintext drawstring reading:

As a result, zebleer says that “for rather immoderate time,” it has been imaginable to get idiosyncratic permanently banned simply by sending them a person petition with the operation oregon posting a connection similar “Nice Trigger Bot dude!” successful the game’s chat since it would past amusement up successful their representation and get scanned by Ricochet.

Despite Activision saying a “small number” of legit accounts were affected, zebleer claims that “several 1000 random COD players were banned by this exploit” earlier anyone started targeting large streamers with it.

Zebleer points to BobbyPoff, a Call of Duty streamer, arsenic 1 of the radical banned owed to the idiosyncratic utilizing the exploit since October 3rd earlier his relationship was suddenly unbanned yesterday. Like different players and streamers caught up successful the bans, determination had been aggravated speculation and treatment implicit whether oregon not BobbyPoff was a cheater, adjacent arsenic helium maintained his innocence and immoderate radical posted jokey videos.

The Call of Duty Updates relationship says that the Ricochet squad volition stock a blog station tomorrow, though the relationship didn’t specify if the station volition sermon this exploit.

Activision didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.