{"id":18882,"date":"2022-04-28T07:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/news-12615\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T07:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:11:06","slug":"news-12615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/news-12615\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty cheats can expect embarrassment with new anti-cheat feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:43:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

In-game cheats are about to have an even harder time of things in triple AAA titles such as Call of Duty. Activision\u2019s \u201cRicochet\u201d software – a kernel level driver anti-cheat system – has added another twist to the tale of how players are protected<\/a> via a new system called \u201cCloaking\u201d.<\/p>\n

Making all new punishments fit the crime<\/h2>\n

Anti-cheat software typically sniffs out people breaking the rules and penalises them. Ricochet adds some perks into the mix for people who aren\u2019t cheating, whenever someone up to no good joins a gaming session.<\/p>\n

As an example, if I\u2019m using an aim-bot to assist me in scoring cheap kills and I join your Call of Duty server, I won\u2019t just be instantly kicked out. Two things will happen:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mitigations are deployed to help regular players not lose unfairly to cheaters like me, running round with aim-bots and wall hacks.. The already existing \u201cDamage Shield\u201d disables critical damage applied to non-cheating individuals. This means I can do everything in my power to win, but it almost certainly won\u2019t be enough thanks to the second thing that happens.<\/li>\n
  2. The new feature called \u201cCloaking<\/a>\u201d kicks in, which combined with the Damage Shield will scupper my chances of victory forever. This is because, hilariously, all other players vanish from view. I can\u2019t see their characters, their bullets, or even hear the noises they make. Essentially, I\u2019ll be twirling around in an empty space, firing bullets that do no damage. The best is yet to come. From the FAQ:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “Legitimate players, however, can see cheaters impacted by Cloaking and can dole out in-game punishment. Similar to Damage Shield, Cloaking gives legitimate players a leg up on cheaters.”<\/p>\n

    That’s nothing to brag about: Shaming cheater out of gaming<\/h2>\n

    Exploiters in games traditionally love bragging rights. Anything to score a cheap win is acceptable, and bragging rights arising from that<\/em> is one of the reasons people continue to do it.<\/p>\n

    Many common anti-cheat methods exist which involve loading up tools prior to game launch, seeing if anything is running which shouldn\u2019t be, and then simply preventing a cheater from joining in the first place.<\/p>\n

    From experience, people just load up another game and try it there instead until they\u2019re allowed in.<\/p>\n

    This system is a curious remix of more typical anti-cheat tactics. Not only are the developers accepting that cheats will eventually end up in a session somehow, they\u2019re also obtaining valuable game data in real-time as to how the cheats react to this approach.<\/p>\n

    Can you imagine the embarrassment when other players in the session upload incredibly funny clips of cheaters helplessly spinning into walls and firing guns at lamp posts to YouTube or stream it on Twitch? It\u2019s possible the threat of this alone will deter some people from that level of social shaming. Nobody\u2019s cool factor can survive an encounter like that.<\/p>\n

    No stopping the ban train<\/h2>\n

    Conscious of controversy surrounding anti-cheat tools<\/a>, the developers have reassured players several times. The Ricochet system only operates when playing, and it isn\u2019t always running<\/em> when playing. It also shuts down when the game is closed.<\/p>\n

    I don\u2019t know for sure how many anti-cheat tools actually do run outside of a game being active. I suspect it\u2019s not many, but it is good to see an organisation being very clear about what additional software needed to run a game does (and does not) do.<\/p>\n

    With 54,000 new account bans added to the 90,000 in March, the gamble seems to have paid off. We can expect to see more slightly weird and unusual approaches to shutting down cheaters in games. Letting them run free in a gaming hamster maze while both regular players and developers observe at their expense? This is simply too good an opportunity to pass up.<\/p>\n

    The post Call of Duty cheats can expect embarrassment with new anti-cheat feature<\/a> appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:43:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Call of Duty cheats can expect a whole new world of embarrassment as a new anti-cheating feature called Cloaking is introduced.<\/p>\n

    The post Call of Duty cheats can expect embarrassment with new anti-cheat feature<\/a> appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[22864,14251,25565,25869,1445,4980,6272,10546],"class_list":["post-18882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-anti-cheat","tag-call-of-duty","tag-cloaking","tag-damage-shield","tag-gaming","tag-hack","tag-hackers","tag-malwarebytes-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}