Follow AP’s coverage of the arrests of Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups: The indictments announced Thursday of a poker cheating ring involving NBA figures and backed by the mafia emphasized their alleged high-tech cheating methods. But the con tactics they described are as old as poker itself, familiar from heist movies and James Bond films. Shady shuffles came not from …
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97% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Beta Cheaters Were Caught ‘Within 30 Minutes of Signing In,’ Activision Says
97% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 cheaters were caught within 30 minutes of signing into the beta, Activision has said. The mega publisher said that its anti-cheat effort, dubbed Team Ricochet, “hit the ground running,” and that “fewer than 1% of cheating attempts reached a match.” “Cheaters were expected. But our upgraded systems caught them faster than ever, …
Read More »97% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 cheaters banned within 30-minutes, Activision claims
With the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s open beta, countless FPS fans have dove eagerly into the fast-paced arcade shooter ahead of its full launch on the 25th October. Cheaters have been plaguing the experience as they tend to do, but Activision claim they’re being quickly dealt with. In a post on X, the official Call of …
Read More »Cheaters Have Come for the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Beta, as Activision Said They Would
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta is live now, and as Activision expected, cheaters have descended upon it. Earlier this week, Activision said it was well aware that cheaters would strike the beta, as they have previous Call of Duty betas, but welcomed the onslaught that was to come. “Cheaters will try to test the limits during the …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s beta is out, and is already plagued by cheaters
Yesterday, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta began in earnest, welcoming in untold thousands of eager players to try the game out before its proper launch on the 14th November. However, a number of cheaters also seemed to let themselves in and get up to no good. The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta requires both TPM …
Read More »Battlefield 6 Beta Breaks 470K Users on Steam; Its Anti-Cheat Already Stopped Over 330K Cheaters
The Battlefield 6 beta is now open to everyone, and the concurrent users peak on Steam (the only platform where we can reliably check it, thanks to SteamDB) has already surpassed 470K. It’s entirely likely that it will break through 500K concurrent users before this beta weekend is over. As a reminder, playing this weekend will guarantee the unlock of …
Read More »Cheaters Already Spotted in Battlefield 6 Open Beta, Despite Secure Boot Requirement
Battlefield 6 isn’t even out yet, but cheaters have already infiltrated the Open Beta on PC. That’s despite requiring players to enable Secure Boot to access the playtest, and EA’s own anti-cheat system, Javelin. EA published a user guide for how to enable Secure Boot on PC just yesterday, August 7. As we reported at the time, it requires a …
Read More »Black Ops 7 will require Secure Boot as devs clamp down on cheaters
Call of Duty is looking to crack down even harder on hackers with Black Ops 7 by making Secure Boot required to launch the game going forward. The battle against hackers is seemingly endless in Call of Duty. Although systems like RICOCHET Anti-Cheat are in place to fight back against cheaters in both multiplayer and Warzone, software is always evolving, …
Read More »Liam Gallagher Says Oasis Concerts Are Safe for Coldplay Cheaters
“Doesn’t matter to us who you’re fucking mingling with, or tingling with, or fingering with. It’s none of our fucking business,” the musician said onstage in Manchester Oasis have revealed a last-minute bonus for ticket holders attending their sold out Live ’25 reunion tour: each ticket comes with a free pass to cheat on whoever you want, only valid at …
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