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Well, that escalated quickly.
There’s been a wave of claims by cheaters about Vanguard “bricking” their PCs, so let’s clear that up: Vanguard does not damage hardware or disable your devices.
The photo we posted is a picture of cheat hardware devices that are sold explicitly for cheating in VALORANT (not normal PCs or PC components). Through our latest updates, Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for VAL, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software.
Our latest update enforces standard platform security features, like the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), on accounts identified as using Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheating devices. These protections are already part of modern systems and when enabled, they block DMA cheat devices (such as those shown in the photo) from accessing memory in downstream applications, like our games.
If a cheat setup continues attempting to cheat after those protections are enabled, the system may generate hardware faults or instability. This is expected behavior under IOMMU when attempts are made to read protected memory.
Disabling IOMMU allows the cheat device to function again, but IOMMU will still be required to play our games. This means the cheat device won’t work with our games, but your PC isn’t “bricked.” We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality in any other fashion.
This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected.
We’ll keep investing in anti-cheat to protect competitive integrity, and we’ll keep being as transparent as possible about how those systems work.
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au-delà de la solution qui s’offre qu’est le divorce, faut avoir le courage de mettre le doigt sur le faite que le mariage traditionnel greffé sur un système juridique occidental est structurellement un traquenard pour l’homme
il dépend de la bonne foi de l’autre parti
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CE N'EST QUE LE DEBUT ! #KCORP
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Cheating communities have finally realized that they are simply unable to spoof TPM since @RiotVanguard's team is able to obtain the TPM EK directly from MMIO, which is unhookable and unbypassable.
TPM is currently the strongest form of HWID. The way cheaters get around it is by buying a TPM chip costing $30-$15 + shipping thats if their motherboard supports it even.
However, Vanguard can differentiate between a TPM chip and a Firmware TPM, leading to faster manual checks and resulting in bans.
The Vanguard team probably has one of the most effective HWID banning systems in the industry, and it has been driving cheat developers nuts for the last three years. This should be an industry standard for other games as well!
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Vanguard has released an update patching Arduino cheats. Devs thought they found a bypass by installing interception, but it got them banned instead.
They have also fixed the HVCI part of it.
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🔨 365 cheaters reported & banned through us in the last 2 weeks
List of banned cheaters below. If you encounter any cheaters in your own games, you can report them to us over at discord.gg/anticheatpd and we'll take care of them 😈
Le meilleur moyen de pénaliser les autodidactes ayant un énorme potentiel 🙂
Si c'était arrivé plus tôt, on m'aurait donc refuser l'accès au lycée alors que j'avais énormément d'avance sur les programmes scolaires ?
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Very grateful to have been able to contribute to this video with the lads @kojyyy_ @Catnopat @BurakFR 😁@theScoreesports youtube.com/watch?v=8phqROis…
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Valorant has done a massive ban wave on DMA, hitting most providers. We have collected some of the reactions from cheaters. It seems like Vanguards timing checks on DMA devices have given cheat developers a tough time lately.
album pictures: imgur.com/a/QC80b22
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ON VIENT DE REMPORTER NOTRE PREMIER TROPHÉE SUR VALORANT 🥹
#KCORP
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Avast has been secretly collecting and selling its users' browser histories to a hundred third parties since 2014. Antiviruses have been doing this type of stuff for a long time, yet nobody questions their activities or security.
Anti-cheats, on the other hand, have been thrashed for having kernel access, with everyone assuming they are chinese rootkits without any proof nor understanding of the internals.
Keep in mind, AVs have the same kernel access as ACs!
U.S. FTC is fining ($16.5m) Avast (antivirus vendor) for selling customers' web browsing histories (lists of visited websites, which are private, personal data blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-b…). #GDPR ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
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Our engineers @baldodev and @BurakFR have been working on an AI model in the past month. This AI model is able to give a prediction on whether or not a player is cheating, by looking at their match history. The prediction comes in form of a percentage of how many matches in a player's match history the AI thinks the player cheated in. After some alpha testing by our staff, this feature has officially been released to the public. This is not the final version and improvements will actively be pushed to improve the accuracy of this feature.
Where can I see this?
You can check a player's Suspicion in our discord server discord.gg/anticheatpd by use of the /lookup commands there. Furthermore, all reports in our server will have a Suspicion score attached. KEEP IN MIND suspicion will be either inaccurate or will not show if the player hasn't played many or any comp matches in the last while.
What is this for?
Suspicion is made as a flagging tool to help our report reviewer team to more efficiently validate reports. We have been collecting data for recently reported players. Let's say we receive 200 reports, 100 of them being real cheaters, and 100 being legit players. In that case our algorithm will label 50 of the cheaters correctly, and will label the other 50 as innocent. It will also label 5 of the legit players as cheaters, and the other 95 will correctly be labelled legit. Keep in mind that this algorithm also detects some 5 stack boosters and labels them as cheaters, but those are considered legit players and included in the 5 false positives in the example. For this example we consider a Suspicion of 50% or over as a predicted cheater. Underneath are some pie charts that provide a visual representation of this info, and also compare this algorithm to our current report reviewer team's stats.
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🇫🇷 “Pour un Islam sans les arabes” : l’humoriste Malik Bentalha a parodié l’imam de Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi, dans une version humoristique de l’émission “L’Heure des Pros” sur CNews, présentée par Pascal Praud, également parodié dans cette vidéo.
