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.

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The fixing of the exploit could lead to cheaters potentially being unbanned alongside falsely banned players.

The game says it has made adjustments to its anti-cheat system RICOCHET after players were wrongfully flagged as cheaters.

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.