“I could have done this for years and as long as I target random players and no one famous it would have gone without notice,”
Vizor
The Threat Actor Who Did This
Anti-cheat software is being used as a weapon by bad actors against their rivals. According to TechCrunch, the hacker going by the name Vizor says he banned hundreds of legal players from Call of Duty (CoD) by taking advantage of a weakness in the Ricochet anti-cheat system. By tricking the Ricochet anti-cheat system, hacker Vizor discovered a method to ban Call of Duty gamers. Even if other users were playing honestly, the hacker Vizor found a means to get them banned. Vizor also found that the anti-cheat programme was actively searching for specific strings, like “Trigger Bot.”
How He Did It
“I realized that Ricochet anti-cheat was likely scanning players’ devices for strings to determine who was a cheater or not. This is fairly normal to do but scanning this much memory space with just an ASCII string and banning off of that is extremely prone to false positives,”
According to Vizor, they were able to figure out a special way to take advantage of Ricochet and use it against the players it was meant to defend. The hacker discovered that Ricochet was detecting hackers by employing a list of particular hardcoded text characters as “signatures.” For instance, according to Vizor, one of the strings had the term “Trigger Bot,” which describes a particular kind of cheat in which a cheater’s weapon is automatically activated when their crosshair is over a target.
According to Vizor, they could easily ban the person they were contacting from the game by sending a private message that contained one of these hardcoded strings, such “Trigger Bot”—referred to as a “whisper” in the game.
“The same day I found this, I got myself banned by sending a whisper message on Call of Duty to myself with one of the strings in the message contents,”
COD Fixes The Issue
Activision claimed to have resolved the flaw in its anti-cheat system that was causing “a small number of legitimate gamer accounts” to be banned. According to its own X handle, RICOCHET Anti-Cheat found and stopped a workaround to a detection system in Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare III that affected a few genuine user accounts. All affected accounts have been restored. There systems were examined for safety, and further monitoring will be carried out.
“Yet I’m still banned, at this point, I’ve given up on CoD. I spend so much money on my account. I’m done with CoD, I’ve lost so much money and all the hours I put into the camos. I give up,” one user posted.
A Cod Player who was banned
