Activision will release an anti-cheat system called Ricochet for Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone on November 5. But now Ricochet has leaked into the hands of hackers.
This leak was reported by the Twitter account @AntiCheatPD which said the Ricochet driver had been 'worked on' by the P2C team to be uprooted.
"P2C devs have started doing reverse (reverse engineering-ed), this is very bad," he wrote.
As evidence, the account posted two screenshots showing the appearance of a forum spreading the driver, and a photo showing details of the driver.
Ricochet has only been on display for a day by Activision, and was immediately criticized for its controversy. That is because it can venture too deep into the system the user is using, which is to reach the kernel level, and is feared to be a cybersecurity threat in itself.
Even so, this security system at the kernel level is even more popular among game developers, for example Valorant, PUBG, and Ark: Survival Evolved. According to Riot Games, Valoran needs a security system at the kernel level to be able to detect cheat software that often uses drivers at the kernel level.
Activision itself promises that Ricochet is only active when the user is opening Call of Duty. This system was created by Activision to combat the cheaters that are scattered in the game.
Ricochet can monitor cheaters in competitive mode, as well as monitor cheaters using tools running on its servers.
The effectiveness of Ricochet is not yet clear, although the @AntiCheatPD account doubts it because it can be hacked. Unlike the anti-cheat system in Valorant, which is reportedly very effective because it runs continuously even though the game is not being played.
