A number of legitimate players got banned when they did nothing wrong.

Activision admits RICOCHET anti-cheat flaw banned legit Call of Duty players, raising concerns about the system's effectiveness.

Activision announced several updates to RICOCHET anti-cheat to better protect players from cheaters in Black Ops 6.

Activision says the goal for Black Ops 6 is to catch and remove cheaters within one hour of them being in their first match. From there, the publisher says it's monitoring the progress internally and building technology to drive this number even further down.

September's Black Ops 6 beta was apparently an important step in Ricochet getting its foothold in the new game. During the first weekend of the beta, detected cheaters were able to play an average of 10 matches before being removed. The second weekend was a lot faster.

A game cheat seller says it was possible to target players and streamers for bans simply by putting the phrase ‘trigger bot’ into game chat.

Online shooters can get contentious, so it’s no surprise that they’re filled with cheaters and regular players whose behaviors get them banned. But some hackers were able to exploit Call of Duty‘s automated anti-cheating system to get innocent players banned,

Activision says it has "disabled a workaround" to a cheat detection system in Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone that was incorrectly targeting some "legitimate" players. In a message posted to X/Twitter, Activision said it had now conducted "an examination of [its] systems" and "restored all accounts" that were impacted.