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

Activision says it has “disabled the detection system workaround.” Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone As a result, legitimate players were banned. Bounce anti-cheat system. The company said the issue “impacted a small number of legitimate player accounts” and that all affected accounts have been restored.

But zebleer, who runs the Phantom Overlay store that sells cheats, claims the problem is much bigger than Activision’s post makes it seem. In a detailed post about Xthey write that when Ricochet scanned the memory of players’ computers for known cheating software, one of the signatures he scanned was a plaintext string that looked like this:

54 72 69 67 67 65 72 20 42 6f 74 (Triggerbot)

As a result, zebleer said that for “quite a while” it was possible to permanently ban someone simply by sending a friend request containing that phrase or posting a message like “Nice Trigger Bot dude!” says it was possible. Because it appears in memory in the game’s chat and is scanned by Ricochet.

Activision says a “small number” of legitimate accounts were affected, but Zebleer claims “thousands of random COD players were banned by this exploit” before anyone started targeting major streamers. I am doing it.

Mr. Zebler points out that bobby poff, call of duty Streamer, as a people prohibited This is due to someone using this exploit since October 3rd, before their account was deleted. It was suddenly released yesterday. Just like other players, Nobori Caught up in the ban, and despite Bobby Poff’s claims of innocence, there was intense speculation and debate as to whether he was a fraudster. Joke videos posted.

The Call of Duty Updates account states that the Ricochet team will share a blog post tomorrow, but does not say whether they will discuss the exploit in the post.

Activision did not respond to a request for comment.