"Congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight," Riot Games taunts on X. A whole bunch of nefarious hardware tinkerers seem to now be on the wrong end of the company's Vanguard anti-cheat, as it seems Riot has gone beyond kernel-level and confounded even cheaters' attempts to bypass the anti-cheat by using a physical piece of hardware that directly accesses system memory to get to game data.
As anti-cheats have gotten more advanced, so have cheats, thus the perpetual arms race between game devs and cheaters. Usually, this involves going deeper and deeper into the system.
Once upon a time, cheat software would have run as a standard app in the OS by hooking game data directly from the game through normal methods—ie, using data that the operating system normally allows apps to read and change.
Most big games can prevent these attacks very easily now, though, so cheat makers started making their cheats hook information from deeper in the softwa...
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