Riot Games' kernal level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update which is allegedly altering system firmware associated with cheating.

Riot Games‘ kernel-level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update that is allegedly altering system firmware to remove the ability of the user to access certain hardware associated with cheating.

Riot Games quoted one post discussing the anti-cheat, replying “congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight.” But how exactly does Vanguard’s new system make “paperweights” out of hardware?

  • alakey@piefed.socialEnglish
    61·
    7 hours ago

    Shouldn’t that be insanely illegal? This is literally malware. Even if someone is outright hacking into your servers, you can’t just hack back and ruin their system. There’s a reason the legal side is not supposed to resort to illegal actions, the fuck.

    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      I dunno’, that’s kinda exactly what “scammer payback” does. Though that’s slightly different than them ‘just’ hacking you.

      Still agreed that doing it over a video game is just crazy.