Activision has announced that they have disabled an “alternative solution to the detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone games, which led to the banning of a number of legitimate players by the Ricochet anti-cheat system.
The company explained that the problem “affected a few legitimate player accounts” and that all affected accounts have been restored.
However, zebleer, who runs the Phantom Overlay store selling cheat programs, claimed that the issue is much bigger than Activision indicated. In a detailed post on the X platform, he mentioned that the Ricochet program, while scanning the player’s device memory for known cheat programs, was looking for a specific script signature, which is a regular text string representing a “Trigger Bot.”
According to zebleer, it was possible to permanently ban any player by sending a friend request containing that phrase or posting a message like “Nice Trigger Bot dude!” in the game chat, where this phrase appears in the player’s memory and is scanned by Ricochet.
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Despite Activision confirming that only a “small number” of legitimate accounts were affected, zebleer claimed that “thousands of random COD players were banned because of this exploit” before targeting prominent players.
