Hacker managed to ban thousands of Call of Duty players

With launch Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Activision has strengthened its security measures to combat fraudsters. A few weeks ago, the company announced that it would use artificial intelligence to find and block players trying to bypass security and cheat. It is curious that the hacker managed to take advantage exploit to ban thousands of players.

Reportedly TechCruncha hacker known as Vizor discovered a vulnerability that allowed players to be banned if they weren’t cheating. He the problem was related to Ricochetanti-cheat system used in games Call of Duty And war zone. Although Activision discovered the bug and restored the affected accounts, the impact will be greater than the company reported.

According to a tweet posted in mid-October, Ricochet’s decision only affected a “small number of legitimate players.” However, the hacker who exploited this vulnerability claims that banned “thousands and thousands” of users after classifying them as scammers. Visor added that he discovered the Ricochet hole a few months ago and that he was able to quietly ban players using a trick.

“I could do this for years, and as long as I target random players and not someone famous, it would go undetected,” the hacker said. Visor noted that it was interesting to take advantage of this. exploit what affected player accounts Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III And war zone.

How the exploit works Call of Duty ban legitimate players

Ricochet’s solution Triggered via text strings codes that are used to identify fraudsters. Vizor realized that he could Send these threads as private messages to other players.. By simply whispering the phrase “Trigger Bot” to the victim, Ricochet will respond by blocking the affected account.

“I realized that the Ricochet anti-cheat was probably scanning players’ devices for strings to determine who was a cheater and who wasn’t,” Visor said. According to the hacker, Ricochet scanned keywords regardless of context. “The day I found this I banned myself by sending a message to Call of Duty with one of the chains in the message content,” Visor said.

Thousands of people affected by this bug have been denied access Call of Duty and received a message that they had cheated. As a preventive measure, Activision has limited matchmaking from MW3, Warzone, MW2 and Warzone Mobile for these users. “Unfortunately, we are unable to tell you when your account will exit restricted matchmaking status. You may check back here periodically to see if your status has been cleared or changed to a temporary or permanent ban,” the company said in a message sent to affected individuals. .

Apparently the problem has already been solved. Aktivizhn a few weeks ago they confirmed that they had restored all affected accounts and promised that they would monitor their anti-cheat system.