Accessing admin-level privileges on a local guest account might net you $25,000 (a little over £20,000). Yesterday, Riot opened up a bug bounty on HackerOne, offering increasingly lofty sums for vulnerabilities discovered in their anti-cheat system (via Kotaku). Thanks, I guess?Įven if Riot don't intend on hijacking your PC, there's always the fear that more malicious actors could piggyback off of Vanguard. In their own words, "if we cared about grandma’s secret recipe for the perfect Christmas casserole, we’d find no issue in obtaining it strictly from user-mode and then selling it to The Food Network". Granted, Riot are also quick to remind that systems like BattleEye and EasyAntiCheat use similar tactics - Vanguard is simply doing the legwork of getting in before the cheats do.īesides, Riot claim Vanguard "isn’t giving us any surveillance capability we didn’t already have". In a somewhat technical post outlining Vanguard's operation, Riot explains that they need this level of access to get ahead of cheating scripts that run on the same level - largely undetectable by client-level anti-cheat systems. This, naturally, raised concerns that Riot are giving themselves unwarranted access to your machine's deepest, darkest systems. It can be removed, sure, but Valorant won't run without it.
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I'm not much of a tech buff, but from what I understand, one of Vanguard's component is a kernel-level (or Ring 0) driver that runs at start-up, with full administrator privileges. Over the last week or so, Valorant's new "Vanguard" anti-cheat system has come under fire for its alleged invasiveness.
In an attempt to reassure fans, Riot are awarding up to £80,000 to anyone who manages to use Valorant's anti-cheat for ill-will. But that level of protection comes with a level of access that's raised a fair few concerns.
From the beginning, they've been flaunting the shooter's technical guts - 128-tick servers, flawless ping, and an anti-cheat system that makes it "impossible for a player to cheat in game-defying ways".
For Valorant, Riot's new Counter-Strike-with-Superpowers FPS, regular anti-cheat was never gonna cut it.
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