Call of Duty: Neuer Anti-Cheat

Ricochet is the new weapon in the fight against Cheaters of Call of Duty: Vanguard and the Battle Royale Warzone. Part of the anti-cheat system is a kernel driver for the PC and exactly this driver should already be hackers.

What is Ricochet? On October 14, Call of Duty introduced his long-announced anti-cheat system named Ricochet . The new system is a kind of upgrade the Call of Duty security infrastructure and comes for the Battle Royale Warzone and this year s premium title COD: Vanguard.

It s about improved processes in the background, but also a kernel driver for the PC. The driver runs when your warzone or Vanguard plays and monitors application interactions with the shooters on the PC. One day after the presentation, this driver should already be hackers who are already working on countermeasures.

Hackers are already working with the kernel driver

How safe is that? The report on the lactic driver comes from the news page Modern Warzone . Initially, it was only about an entry in a hacker forum, but now the driver file has spread and it is to be assumed that hackers actually have the code to the driver - or at least think (via ModernWarzone.com).

Another possibility is currently that the driver file is a trap. According to Call of Duty, the developers for the RICOCHET system experienced professionals in security issues have brought their own. The driver could therefore be something like a Trojan, with which those who could detect those responsible at COD Hackers who work on the driver.

Call of Duty has published a report a few months ago, in which it is about such Trojans, the cheater as a goal. Whether it is the real driver is still unclear. However, however, it means that the lactic file is with certainty part of the RICOCHET system. Modern war zone has also spoken with an anonymous source from the cheating scene that has confirmed the authenticity of the code.

What is a kernel driver? The kernel is part of your operating system from which you do not know much, but on which important system functions are based. For example, the interfaces between the operating system and your hardware are running here. The kernel then ensures efficient distribution of system resources.

For this, the kernel applications require a high authorization level in your system and these permissions also uses the kernel driver of Call of Duty. Since cheat programs can also work at this level of the system, the kernel driver needs these comprehensive entitlements to have a chance to discover suspicious interactions of applications with cod games.

However, the discovery of cheat programs is not guaranteed.

What does the leak mean for the cheat protection? The damage is probably not too large by the lactation driver probably - if it is actually the real one. Dedicated hackers can now try a discovery through the driver for a few weeks earlier.

But at the latest with the official release of the driver to the Pacific Update of the Warzone, the code would have landed in the hands of the hackers anyway. As long as other, important information about the work of Ricochet will be lacted, the damage should be limited.

So all not so bad? That can not be sure. However, the developers emphasize in the idea of ​​the RICOCHET system that the new anti-cheat system is based not only on the kernel driver. Rather, it is a package of measures and the driver only part of a complete security upgrade. The package includes:

Servers-side analysis tools Improved examination processes Increasing account security Kernel drivers on the PC

Ricochet is more of a system that should recognize pattern to systematically reveal Cheater. The kernel driver has not only the function to discover cheaters, but should also help to understand the processes that run on the PC when chesting.

These experiences with the cheating processes should then help to discover fraudsters without the kernel driver. A summary of the ricochet performance can be found here.

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Call of Duty relies a lot to the new anti-cheat system. Cheaters have set itself in the minds of many players as the big problem of modern cods and demanded loudly in recent months after more measures against scammers.

Whether the system works effectively can not be assessed yet. We will see that at the latest to the release of the Pacific Update of the Warzone. But what you can already look at, are a few snapshots of the new Pacific Map, which comes with anti-cheat update: Everything about the new Pacific Map in Cod Warzone - Release, Pictures & Size