Warzone console hack developer shuts down in major anti-cheat victory for Activision ActivisionActivision scored a massive anti-cheat victory as the developer behind a new emerging Warzone console hack has announced they are shutting down development. The hack, which featured auto-aim and other abusive elements, used machine learning to send inputs to a controller and only required those with the cheats to aim in the general area. Originally, the hack was brought to light by watchdog Anti-Cheat Police Department, who warned that while the cheat was detectable, it wouldn\u2019t be easy for developers to do so. As such, Activision took action and began to remove the hack\u2019s YouTube channels that advertised the cheats to players. Remember the console cheat that used computer vision? and emulate controller input? That we reported? well\u2026 @Activision has made their stance very clear that they are not messing around, they went right for the head and stopped it from spreading or taking off. Incridible. pic.twitter.com\/tuIlc7z2n2 \u2014 Anti-Cheat Police Department \ud83d\udd75\ufe0f (@AntiCheatPD) July 12, 2021 Now, on July 13, the developer of the hacks has announced they\u2019re shutting down at the \u201crequest\u201d of Activision. \u201cI will no longer be developing or providing access to software that could be used to exploit their games,\u201d the dev wrote. \u201cMy intent was never to do anything illegal.\u201d The developer continued that the hack was never fully released and all promotional materials advertised it as \u201ccoming soon.\u201d \u201cThis type of technology has other actual assistive benefits, for example, by pointing a webcam at yourself you could control movements without the use of limbs. Unfortunately, because of its potential negative impact, I will not be developing it further.\u201d News of the hack\u2019s shutdown was applauded by Anti-Cheat Police Department, who told Dexerto that its use extended to more than just Warzone and that any console game could have been at risk. \u201cActivision has made their stance very clear that they are not messing around, they went right for the head and stopped it from spreading or taking off,\u201d they wrote. \u201cIncredible.\u201d No, they can’t he would get chased by the ends of the earth, this provider was the only one with a successful Computer vision type cheat that was emulating console inputs, I am sure @Activision has done their research before pursuing legal actions. \u2014 Anti-Cheat Police Department \ud83d\udd75\ufe0f (@AntiCheatPD) July 12, 2021 It also seems as if this cheat creator won\u2019t be a problem again. When asked about a potential rebrand, Anti-Cheat PD replied, \u201che would get chased by the ends of the earth. This provider was the only one with a successful Computer vision type cheat that was emulating console inputs.\u201d \u201cI am sure Activision has done their research before pursuing legal actions,\u201d he noted. While this victory in one battle against hacks is a solid W, the war continues. Most recently, a couple of new cheats are giving players unlimited UAVs while hackers are giving random users all gun camos and attachments. Activision may still have their hands full, but at least they were able to stop a new wave of console cheats before they got out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone console hack developer shuts down in major anti-cheat victory for Activision ActivisionActivision scored a massive anti-cheat victory as the developer behind a new emerging Warzone console hack has announced they are shutting down development. The hack, which featured auto-aim and other abusive elements, used machine learning to send inputs to a controller and only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}