Activision claims Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system won’t look at your files

guest · Oct 15, 2021

Activision claims Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system won’t look at your files
High-level security driver allegedly only runs when games are active, server-side protections also included.
October 14, 2021
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021...ew-anti-cheat-system-wont-look-at-your-files/

Call of Duty's comprehensive new anti-cheat system includes a potential olive branch for security-conscious players: It can't access your PC's private files—or so publisher Activision claims.

Announced Wednesday via the Call of Duty blog, the developers' new suite of cheat-deterrent tools (called the Ricochet Anti-Cheat initiative) includes a kernel-level driver for PC that the publisher is claiming will only run when a Call of Duty game is active, as well as a host of server-side tools that the Call of Duty security team will use to monitor player behavior and respond accordingly. The Ricochet system will be required to play Call of Duty: Warzone and the upcoming WWII-based Call of Duty: Vanguard once the software is implemented in each game.
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Assuming the publisher's claims are true, the kernel driver—slated to be added to Warzone later this year—only performs active checks on software that tries to interact with or otherwise change its files when the game application is open and will turn off when players close out.

In other words, it allegedly won't be constantly running in the background whenever your PC is on and can't monitor or report data unrelated to Call of Duty files.
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However, the post does not address granular details or provide proof of how the driver has kernel-level access without the ability to turn itself on outside of a Call of Duty application or whether it can prevent attackers from activating the software when a game isn't running.
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