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Where would I submit vulnerabilities for compensation? I like money more than cheating
We run a bug bounty program on hackerone. I think it might be invite only but you can also email bug bounty reports to [email protected]
Where would I submit vulnerabilities for compensation? I like money more than cheating
We run a bug bounty program on hackerone. I think it might be invite only but you can also email bug bounty reports to [email protected]
If you'll need one more opinion on this lineup of gun skins. I love Cypher's. I think this color scheme looks elegant and creates an illusion, at least in my head, of a classy Bond-like agent. This skin makes you not just a mercenary, but elevates you to high-class assassin.
Yes! Love to hear that! :) I like that it’s on the Ghost too so it’s silenced and fits that feeling better.
Is that the first skin you’re trying to unlock?
Not OP, but I like the Omen/Cypher/Brimstone skins because they're clean. The Prism skins appeal to me as well, personally not a fan of the weapons currently available to purchase in the shop as the transformed models feel.. clunky(Reaver Vandal v. Regular)? I prefer clean re-skins/paints.
That’s helpful to know. Thanks for sharing! :)
What do you like about Prism compared to Avalanche (which also doesn’t have any model change)?
If I could pick your brain for a moment. After I downloaded and played Valorant. Hence forth every time I boot up my computer for the first time that day. It will cause me to restart my pc as the anti-cheat system has not finished applying. When I go to restart my pc it takes about 7-10 min for it to actually boot up. But once I Shut my pc down it requires me to reinstall the anti cheat over and over again. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling both Valorant and riot vanguard to no success. My pc on average took 10-15 sec to boot before I download Valorant this Tuesday.
I don't have any ideas off the top of my head sorry!
I recommend submitting a support ticket, they'll be able to run you through some troubleshooting steps and if they discover that it's a bug in Vanguard (or even just a previously unknown incompatibility) they'll make sure we get the diagnostic information we need from you.
Hey, not sure if you'll see this. But the "Contracts" progress won't stick after the closed beta ends, right?
Correct. We are resetting all progression after closed beta ends.
Just dont turn it into a bitcoin miner like another company with this kind of anticheat.
I will do everything in my power to prevent this from happening.
As more and more videos will surface of cheats in Valorant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATkpqYmWt8k please reconsider what I said about shadowbanning. Bans of accounts and hardware will never work. If you keep cheaters in a cheater pool and allow them to play against each other they will stay on those accounts as they can play instead of being forced to a new account.
Off topic but I've been sent this video so many times that I now recognize its URL without clicking!
I'm going to discuss shadow banning with the team again but I don't think it'll end up high on our list of things to build.
Read moreid assume VGK loads at system start to prevent people using vulnerable drivers to either run their own code and or load unsigned drivers and will prevent the vulnerable driver from loading or prevent valorant from running after.
if this is the case i do see one hole in this form of security, you only know about publicly known vulnerable drivers. there are many other drivers that could be used other than what ill call "Driver C" because of, well the first letter. I know of one that is not only a very common driver but is also their latest version of that driver so I don't see how you could differentiate between someone using it to load cheats or is just wanting to use it for its intended purpose. not to mention the person who discovered it submitted a report in 2019 to the company and Microsoft, who both are still yet to acknowledge it, I've even gone as far as to contact my university to help him get the driver a CVE & fix but due to corna it seems that has been put on the...
You're not wrong, there are some difficulties with things like "Driver C"
When making calls like this one of the things we look at is the cost of cheat development. Even if a mitigation is imperfect we consider whether or not it increase the time/effort to develop cheats to be worth doing. There's also the cliche of "Defense in Depth" where several imperfect mitigations could work together to create a much stronger overall protection.
The theory goes that fewer people will make cheats if it's difficult and time consuming which will make it easier for us to detect them (or otherwise get them to desist).
So even when a mitigation is imperfect the additional burden on cheat developers can be worthwhile either to increase the cost of cheat development or just as one more part of an overall strategy.
thanks for reporting. we will take a look.
Wtf? People do laugh about your anti-cheat in certain forums. Ive met so many aimbotting and wallhacking cheater after my 4th day, its not funny.
I'm sorry that you've had a bad experience. If you report the people you're playing against and send in clips it'll help me get them out the game faster.
Our anti-cheat is only going to get better, we're banning cheaters right now but the more data we get the faster our systems can act.
God, that sounds really great. A group of great minds trying to find a solution to a problem that is as old as gaming :D What did you study/learn to come into such a team? I have always been interested in the topic hacking/protection, but wasnt able to find a job in this field because i didnt know what qualification i need.
In some ways I was lucky because I got into the industry before there were a lot of formal qualifications necessary. I studied computer science and took all the networking courses I could on top of the required compsci stuff. After graduating I got a government job where I learned a lot of the more specific security related stuff.
If you want to get into it I recommend looking into security Capture the Flag puzzles, they're a great gamified way of learning some of the tech behind security. Here's a blog post about them: https://dev.to/atan/what-is-ctf-and-how-to-get-started-3f04 (I personally like the jeopardy style CTFs)
Oh and... sorry dumb question, can't you let me in?? All my friends are playing while i'm still watching streams on streams.
But, as i said, very dumb question
I understand that you want to shoot your shot :)
I can't give anyone beta access though!
This is amazing! Such a clever way of preventing a system corruption! Im just curious, how do you come up with your ideas?
I don't have any unique idea generating skills, if anything it comes down to trying a lot of different things and working with a lot of smart people.
There's a team of us working on anti-cheat and we have experience from a lot of fields including information security, operating systems internals, anti-cheat development, game programming, data analysis and game hacking. We draw on our experiences in these fields as well as keep abreast of the latest research from the security and anti-cheat communities to come up with potential security techniques.
One of the best ways of coming up with new ideas is to closely monitor what hacking communities are doing to try and bypass other anti-cheat systems (including League of Legend's anti-cheat). We also welcome ideas for new security measures and reports of security weaknesses in our systems (even paying rewards in some cases) to help us improve them.
So our PCs might be eventually exploited via your driver only when the game is running? Do we get that information upon installation or have I missed it?
I'm not sure what you mean by exploited here.
The driver runs at system startup but the rest of Vanguard (the more active components) only run while the game is running.
So much transparency... love you Riot, you're the best
<3
So why was this player able to see everyone through 20 walls?
The cheats so far have been drawing players at obsolete/incorrect positions because they haven't been able to tell whether or not the information on the client is up to date.
In some of the videos floating around you can see that the wallhack box takes a big jump just before the enemy comes around the corner, that's when the server sends a real update to the player and only then are their cheats showing the correct location.
I have an article that goes into more details on how Fog of War works, it should be coming out early next week. I even made a wallhack to demo things for everyone :)
Interesting about using a least permissions approach. My knowledge on the technicalities of cheating is limited, but what about detecting cheats injected into protected memory?
We have the driver do as little work as possible. If an anti-cheat check can be run unprivileged then we will run it that way. Sometimes there may not be a way to perform an integrity check without extra permissions and only in those cases is the work done by the driver.
Will you consider implementing an option to NOT run the driver at system startup by default, and prompt for a restart upon launching the game? I would feel much more comfortable compartmentalizing my play sessions in such a way that the driver is never running unless I am playing the game.
While it's not an official option you can do this yourself by uninstalling Vanguard once you're finished playing. You can find it as "Riot Vanguard" in Add/Remove programs.
When you want to play again the patcher/launcher will reinstall Vanguard automatically and you'll be asked to reboot your system.
"The Vanguard driver does not collect or send any information about your computer back to us."
"it doesn't scan anything (unless the game is running)"
Thank you for the clarification, this is mainly what I was looking for.
You're welcome! While there're details and specifics that I won't get into I'm trying to be as open as possible about what we're doing to fight cheaters.
Yeah that's not going to fly with me. I'll figure out some way to keep it off permanently until I launch the game. Otherwise some coder will find a way to do so.
Sorry to hear that. You can uninstall Riot Vanguard at any time from Add/Remove programs. You'll need to reinstall it and restart your computer if you want to play (the game patcher will reinstall it for you).