The developer of League of Legends announced that rewards of over 10 million yen will be given to people who found loopholes in cheat countermeasure tools for new games
A Message About Vanguard From Our Security & Privacy Teams | Riot Games
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Riot Games has been making efforts to prevent cheats for a long time.For example, in League of Legends, we take measures to disable the cheat tool by changing the encryption code for debug check in each build. I came.
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VALORANT is the new first person shooting (FPS) game of Riot Games. Riot Games has started the beta test of VALORANT from April 7, 2020 and plans to release it as a game for Windows with basic play free in the summer of 2020.
And the cheat countermeasure tool implemented in this VALORANT is ' Riot Vanguard ' originally developed by Riot Games. Riot Vanguard describes Riot Vanguard as 'designed to ensure and maintain the pureness of the competition as high as possible'.
Riot Vanguard is composed of three components: 'client', ' kernel driver ' and 'platform'. When the game client is launched, the Riot Vanguard client is also launched at the same time to monitor cheats in the game in collaboration with the kernel driver. The PC playing the game is not considered a 'trusted machine' unless the kernel driver is detected by the client.
The kernel driver is also responsible for preventing the cheat code from being loaded before the client is initialized and for verifying memory and system state to ensure that the client has not been tampered with. Then, if the client or kernel driver detects a dishonesty, it works with the game platform to prevent the dishonest player from continuing the game.
According to the security team, the kernel driver has been signed with a Riot Games
The security team also announced in a statement that it will expand the rewards program that Riot Games has been implementing for some time as a cheat measure. It announced the creation of Vanguard Bounty that pays up to 100,000 dollars (about 10.78 million yen) to the 'Discovery of exploit discovery using Riot Vanguard driver'.
The exploits targeted by this Vanguard Bounty are broadly divided into 'network attack without user operation' 'network attack requiring user operation' ' local attack for the purpose of privilege escalation to obtain privileges that should not be given' The rewards are divided into 25,000 dollars (about 2.69 million yen) to 100,000 dollars depending on the contents of the exploit.
The security team said, 'We're the same players as you, we don't let you install untrusted programs on your PC. To protect both the game's competitiveness and your personal privacy, Please take responsibility, 'and asked for understanding of the use of Riot Vanguard.
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