Activision says it’s fixed an anti-cheat hack in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone
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Activision says it has “disabled a workaround to a detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone that led to legitimate players getting banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the problem “impacted a small number of legitimate player accounts,” and all accounts affected were restored.
However, zebleer, who runs the Phantom Overlay store selling cheats, claims the problem is much bigger than Activision’s post makes it seem. In a detailed post on X, they write that when Ricochet scanned the memory of a player’s computer to find known cheat software, one of the signatures it scanned for was a plaintext string reading:
54 72 69 67 67 65 72 20 42 6f 74 (Trigger Bot)
As a result, zebleer says that “for…
