Activision says it has “disabled a workaround for a detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone That led to legitimate players being banned by the x.com/CODUpdates/status/1847001212761350574″>Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the issue “affected a small number of legitimate player accounts” and all affected accounts were restored.
However, Zebleer, who runs the Phantom Overlay store that sells cheats, claims the problem is much bigger than Activision's post makes it seem. x.com/zebleerpo/status/1847024778600689706″>In a detailed post about xThey write that when Ricochet scanned a player's computer memory to find known cheat software, one of the signatures it scanned was a plain text string that read:
54 72 69 67 67 65 72 20 42 6f 74 (Shooter bot)
As a result, Zebleer says that “for quite some time now,” it's been possible to permanently ban someone simply by sending them a friend request with the phrase or posting a message like “Good friend Trigger Bot!” in the in-game chat, as it would then appear in his memory and be scanned by Ricochet.
Even though Activision said a “small number” of legitimate accounts were affected, zebleer claims that “this exploit banned several thousand random COD players” before anyone started targeting big streamers.
Zebleer points out x.com/BobbyPoff/status/1841912385977655744″>bobbypoffto Obligations streamer, as one of the people x.com/zebleerpo/status/1846953059345486159″>forbidden because the person used the exploit since October 3 before their account was x.com/Headdband/status/1846708945227804864″>suddenly unbanned yesterday. Like other players and x.com/notcloakzy1/status/1841942184259400182″>streamers Caught in the bans, there was intense speculation and discussion about whether BobbyPoff was a cheater or not, even as he maintained his innocence and some people x.com/TheMainDevent/status/1844176079831081110″>funny videos published.
The Call of Duty Updates account says that the Ricochet team will share a blog post tomorrow, although the account did not specify whether the post will discuss this exploit.
Activision did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
