A flaw in computer motherboards helped cheaters in the popular game Valorant. This is stated in declare game developer Riot Games.
The company's experts say they have found a serious vulnerability on some motherboards that can be used to silently inject code. In turn, the attackers used a system vulnerability to trick the online game Valorant's anti-cheat system and gain an unfair advantage.
Motherboards from Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI are all affected by this vulnerability. Riot Games engineers note the severity of the problem: “If this problem is not noticed, it will completely disable all protection technologies on the market.”
Riot Games recommends that users update their anti-cheat software for Vanguard, which has added a patch that eliminates the bug. The solution to the problem involves updating the BIOS settings.
“BIOS updates aren't as exciting as counting the number of banned players, but they are a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheaters,” Valorant developers concluded.
In early December, Google experts announced that they had found more than a hundred vulnerabilities in Android. The company has released a patch that started being distributed on December 5.
