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Hide your Cronus, hide your XIMs — Call of Duty's anti-cheat team targets third party devices ahead of Black Ops 7 Season 2

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Team RICOCHET has announced new changes to anti-cheat security ahead of the launch of Ranked Play and Season 2 coming February 5.

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Activision drops a year‑end anti‑cheat recap for Black Ops 7, highlighting bans, detections, and new tools used throughout 2025

Activision drops a year‑end anti‑cheat recap for Black Ops 7, highlighting bans, detections, and new tools used throughout 2025

Call of Duty's Team RICOCHET continues to celebrate victories against cheaters with new report highlighting 800,000 permanent bans of disruptive players over the last year, spanning the post-launch seasons for Black Ops 6 and the launch of Black Ops 7.

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Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after 'the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history', brags '99% of matches were cheater-free' and warns that every day they get 'faster'

Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after 'the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history', brags '99% of matches were cheater-free' and warns that every day they get 'faster'

But you may well have some concerns about that number.

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Activision's Team RICOCHET shares more anti-cheat data from Black Ops 7's beta and things are looking REALLY good

Activision's Team RICOCHET reports that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was 99% cheat -free by the end of its weeklong beta, and shares plans for new AI-powered cheat detection tools coming at launch.

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Can't get enough of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's open beta? Good news — you got more time

We got a job to do — keep racking up those eliminations in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's open beta, now extended until Thursday, October 9.

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Like Battlefield 6, Call of Duty Has Announced the Roll Out of New Anti-cheat Protections Utilizing TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot in Preparation for Black Ops 7

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 5 launches on August 7, and the RICOCHET anti-cheat team has announced new hardware-level protections in anticipation of Black Ops 7's launch later this year.

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TeamRICOCHET unveils plan to use machine learning in its effort to ramp up Call of Duty anti-cheat efforts

Call of Duty's TeamRICOCHET has fought an uphill battle stopping cheaters since Black Ops 6's first season. With Season 3 on the horizon, new tools are planned to stop disruptive players.

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Activision follows through on efforts to combat cheating in Call of Duty by sending cease and desists to prominent cheat providers

Activision follows through on efforts to combat cheating in Call of Duty by sending cease and desists to prominent cheat providers

Activision has targeted Two2nd and Tomware, prominent providers of Call of Duty cheat software, with cease and desists prompting the permanent discontinuation of Call of Duty cheat products.

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Call of Duty devs issue a new community update addressing cheating and other player concerns, as well as confirming console-only ranked play for Season 2

Call of Duty devs issue a new community update addressing cheating and other player concerns, as well as confirming console-only ranked play for Season 2

Call of Duty dev studios address lackluster anti-cheat performance and plans for updates in Season 2 and 3.

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Team Ricochet is combating cheaters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 with 'hourly sweeps' and 'AI systems' but even with over 19,000 bans, players aren't seeing the results

Team Ricochet is combating cheaters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 with 'hourly sweeps' and 'AI systems' but even with over 19,000 bans, players aren't seeing the results

This doesn't bode well for Warzone.

Black Ops 6 cheaters are getting banned from ranked play, but not fast enough — even with help from AI

Black Ops 6 cheaters are getting banned from ranked play, but not fast enough — even with help from AI

The team behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 anticheat software has issued an update on how many accounts have been banned since ranked play went live.

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It's not just you: Team RICOCHET confirms a data outage affected Black Ops 6 anti-cheat

It's not just you: Team RICOCHET confirms a data outage affected Black Ops 6 anti-cheat

Players have recently complained about struggles in Black Ops 6's recently added Ranked mode and fresh Warzone maps. Team RICOCHET, the team behind the RICOCHET Anti-cheat system in Call of Duty, have confirmed a data outage resulted in reduced effectiveness of mitigation techniques. A fix has been deployed.

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Black Ops 6 players can calm down because the devs have confirmed that the 'Assault Rifle changes have not made headshots less effective'

Black Ops 6 players can calm down because the devs have confirmed that the 'Assault Rifle changes have not made headshots less effective'

Season 1 is packed full of exciting features.

Call of Duty's Team RICOCHET embraces machine learning and torments cheaters in Warzone and Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty's Team RICOCHET embraces machine learning and torments cheaters in Warzone and Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty's Team Ricochet provided an update on upcoming advances in the Ricochet anti-cheat system including new mitigation tactics for MW3 and Warzone.

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Call of Duty launches psychological war on cheating players

Cheating hacks are ruining Call of Duty for honest gamers. Here’s how the game’s anti-cheat force is using mind tricks to turn the battlefield against them

Call of Duty's new anti-cheat efforts make cheaters hallucinate

Devs will also use hallucinations to uncover cheaters

Call of Duty gets into psychological warfare as new anti-cheat tech plagues hackers with 'hallucinations'

Fairly certain this is a violation of like five different international treaties.

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Team RICOCHET releases progress update in the fight against cheaters in Call of Duty on Xbox and PC

Team RICOCHET has announced new mitigations were previously deployed to catch players who cheat via software and additional hardware while also sharing details of the results of such mitigation efforts.

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