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97% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 cheaters banned within 30-minutes, Activision claims

by admin October 7, 2025

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 Duty updates account released a lengthy statement on the cheater problem. According to this post, 97 percent of Black Ops 7 beta cheaters are being banned within 30-minutes. Not only that, they claim fewer than 1 percent of cheating attempts reached a match, and those who did were removed within minutes.

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This post also spotlights cheat providers themselves, claiming that many of them are now labeling their cheats as “unusable”. The post also goes on to claim that over 40 cheat developers have been shut down since the launch of Black Ops 6. The post also calls for players to stay diligent by reporting others they believe are using cheats in matches, to help keep the cheating problem at bay.

As Call of Duty fans will know, the back and forth battle between Activision and Call of Duty cheaters has been a long and arduous one. Activision’s proprietary Ricochet anti-cheat software is constantly tweaked and updated, but every now and again cheating software is updated to account for the latest version of Ricochet and the cheating problem rears its ugly head again.

It’s not just Call of Duty either. Battlefield 6 had its own cheating problem during the open beta. Both games require Secure Boot to be enabled on your PC to run, which has proven to be a step too far for some players (or their hardware).

It seems, if Activision is right about these impressive looking stats, that right now is a moment where the company has the upper hand in the war against cheating. Whether this remains true by the time Black Ops 7 launches later this month remains to be seen, but let’s hope things stay largely cheater free for the foreseeable future.

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October 7, 2025 0 comments

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Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Call of Duty Black Ops 7’s beta has cheaters

by admin October 3, 2025

Lo, when we perform the great ritual to open the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 beta, the cheaters will come. That’s what Activision said a few days ago, more or less. Hark, friends and foes enveloped in tactical gear and the occasional goofy crossover skin, it’s now a few days later and the cheatening is upon us. It arrived with the beta going live, just as prophesised.

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Cue posts like the one above, from helpless souls caught in the frothing swirl of the cheatening maelstrom. And cue responses from Activision’s powerful anti-cheat druids, writing of these foretold ritual side-effects things like: “This clip was from earlier today. The account was already banned.”

The bearded warders against the likes of wallhacks and aimbotting have even broken out a powerful magical artefact, the hammer emoji of reassurance, in their responses to clips like this, a number of which went viral on the tweeter last night. Reddit, as a far as I can tell, looks relatively free of such clippage or anger about cheating, which is a sign of the end times if I’ve ever seen one.

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It’s at this point that Activision would want us all to take solace in their prediction from this blog post a few days ago, AKA the prophecy I paraphrased earlier. “Cheaters will try to test the limits during the Beta,” it read. “That’s exactly what we want because #TeamRICOCHET is here, watching, learning, and removing them as they appear. Any account permanently banned for cheating during the Beta will be banned across all Call of Duty titles, from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to future releases.”

Obviously, this isn’t an affliction unique to Call of Duty. As James eloquently outlined when Battlefield 6’s beta was similarly afflicted by cheating, despite both it and Blops 7 seeing studios take the extra step of making it mandatory for PC players to enable secure boot in an effort to curb tech-savvy tricksters. The debate is whether continuing to take more and more measures like that in an effort to whack whatever persistent cheating moles keep popping up or slipping through the array of defenses already assembled is worth any inconvenience caused to those playing fairly as a result.

It’s a delicate balance to strike, and where you stand on the issue may well depend on just how many cheaters you’ve happened to run into in online games over the years and the situations in which those encounters happened. In Black Ops 7’s case, there’s also arguably a little bit of irony in Activion’s strong stance, due to the ability to temporarily see and shoot foes through several layers of wall, a bit like some cheats allow you to do permanently, actually being in the game as a killstreak reward.

Anyway, I await Black Ops 7’s full release on November 14th, at which point I prophesise that the cheating chatter will emerge once more. That’s provided the round of cheat chatter prompted by Battlefield 6’s arrival on October 10th has actually managed to dissipate by mid-November.

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October 3, 2025 0 comments

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s beta is out, and is already plagued by cheaters

by admin October 3, 2025

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 2.0 and Secure Boot enabled on your PC to play, which Treyarch stated was needed to “create a more secure environment that catches more cheating.”

Within hours of the beta starting, however, clips started appearing on social media showing off wall hacks and aim bots working in the beta. Take the below video posted to X, which shows the same old cheats in action.

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Now, this account was later banned manually as confirmed by Treyarch on X, but why are old cheats working on a new game so soon after it was in the player’s hands? Well, while the Black Ops 7 Beta requires additional kernel-level access to your computer, the updated version of Activision’s proprietary Ricochet Anti-Cheat has not yet come to the game. Instead, players will have to wait until the full launch to get additional cheat protection.

This is but the latest blow in the ongoing fight between FPS game developers and cheat manufacturers. A continuous back-and-forth where cheats run amok until an updated anti-cheat solution bans a vast selection of these cheaters. Then, after a little while, the cheaters learn how the anti-cheat works and it circles round and round. This particular cycle has been a fixture of the Call of Duty series for years.

There are other options available to players who want to curb cheating. Activision announced earlier this year that it’ll allow console players to turn off crossplay to avoid cheating, admitting the majority of cheaters are playing on PC.

It’s worth noting that this year’s current Call of Duty competitor Battlefield 6 has also suffered at the hands of cheaters during its open beta, with EA’s anti-cheat shutting down over 300,000 cheaters during its run.

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October 3, 2025 0 comments

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Cheaters have already taken over Black Ops 7 just hours after beta goes live

by admin October 2, 2025

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta is already being infested with cheaters as players await the arrival of a stronger anti-cheat.

Every year, cheaters become a major threat to Call of Duty, and Activision is in a constant, never-ending struggle with the creators of this nefarious software.

On October 2, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s early access beta arrived, and while there have been controversies about perks and scorestreaks, an old adversary reared its ugly head.

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Like clockwork, footage of players using aim bots, wall hacks, and other such tools emerged.

Aimbotters and wall hacks hit Black Ops 7 beta

In one clip, uploaded to X by a fresh account, a user showed off how they could see enemies through walls and quickly snapped right to targets, mowing them down.

Another video, this time from streamer Stodeh, he encountered a cheater just three hours into the beta.

“Bro, is this guy cheating in hour three of beta?” he asked in chat.

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Someone in the lobby then claimed there had been cheaters right when the beta launched. Footage proceeded to show absurd kill cams where Stodeh was shredded by someone who shouldn’t have been able to see him.

“This can’t be happening in Black Ops 7 ALREADY,” he blasted.

Not all hope may be lost, but players will need to be patient.

Treyarch have revealed upgrades to their RICOCHET Anti-Cheat system, including a crackdown on aimbots and wall hacks.

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In a blog post, the devs confirmed a “new generation of machine learning systems and detection tools” is coming to Black Ops 7 at launch.

These upgrades, however, will only go live officially when Black Ops 7 launches on November 14.

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October 2, 2025 0 comments

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Call of Duty Devs ‘Want’ Cheaters To Play The BLOPS7 Beta

by admin October 1, 2025

In a few days, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta launches on console and PC. This will be the first time players get a chance to go hands-on with the upcoming FPS. It will also be the first chance hackers and cheaters get to possibly screw up the game. And Activision not only expects that to happen, but wants it to happen.

On September 29, Activision and the team behind Call of Duty’s anti-cheat tech posted a lengthy blog about what they are doing to stop cheaters from ruining the game. As previously announced, this time around, Call of Duty players on PC will have to have Secure Boot activated on their rig to play Black Ops 7 and the upcoming beta. For most players, this shouldn’t be much of an issue as newer PCs running Windows 11 are likely to already have Secure Boot activated. But for other players planning to run the game on older PCs or rigs that don’t support Secure Boot, this could be a problem.

We saw similar issues with Battlefield 6 and its open beta, which also required Secure Boot. The idea is that this extra level of security can help stop some PC cheat tools, but some players have complained that it can be a pain to turn on Secure Boot if you aren’t experienced with messing around with your PC’s BIOS settings. Others claim it doesn’t do much to stop hackers and cheaters, and point to the fact that BF6‘s beta reportedly had cheaters in it almost immediately. Regardless, Secure Boot is needed to play Black Ops 7 and the beta. And if cheaters do try to play the BLOPS7 beta despite Secure Boot, Activision and its anti-cheat team, Team Ricochet, are waiting for them and ready to ban them forever.

“Cheaters will try to test the limits during the Beta. That’s exactly what we want because #TeamRICOCHET is here, watching, learning, and removing them as they appear,” explained the team in the previously mentioned blog post. “Any account permanently banned for cheating during the Beta will be banned across all Call of Duty titles, from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to future releases.”

The studio further explained that all of its anti-cheat tech, which includes machine learning tools and more, will also help make Activision’s free-to-play battle royale Call of Duty Warzone safer from cheaters, adding: “Everything we’re building for Black Ops 7 will also protect Call of Duty: Warzone.”

I still expect cheaters will break through Activision’s defenses and cause problems in BLOPS7‘s beta and the full game, which launches in November on consoles and PC. But it sounds like the folks building the game’s anti-cheat tools are not just ready for a fight, but actively encouraging it.

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta launches on all platforms on October 2 via early access. It then opens up to everyone on October 5 and ends on October 8.

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October 1, 2025 0 comments