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Title: How Riot Games is Fighting the War Against Video Game Hackers

Link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/003...

Riot Games has reduced cheating in Valorant to under 1% of ranked games
through its controversial kernel-level anti-cheat system Vanguard, according
to the company's anti-cheat director Phillip Koskinas. The system enforces
Windows security features like Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot while
preventing code execution in kernel memory. Beyond technical measures, Riot
deploys undercover operatives who have infiltrated cheat development
communities for years. "We've even gone as far as giving anti-cheat
information to establish credibility," Koskinas told TechCrunch, describing
how they target even "premium" cheats costing thousands of dollars. Riot
faces increasingly sophisticated threats, including direct memory access
attacks using specialized PCI Express hardware and screen reader cheats that
use separate computers to analyze gameplay and control mouse movements. To
combat repeat offenders, Vanguard fingerprints cheaters' hardware. Koskinas
admits to deliberately slowing some enforcement: "To keep cheating dumb, we
ban slower." The team also employs psychological warfare, publicly
discrediting cheat developers and trolling known cheaters to undermine their
credibility in gaming communities.

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