RICOCHET hard at work — Latest update for Black Ops 7 and Warzone

RICOCHET has been doing a decent job at deterring cheating as of late. The additions of TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot have been worthwhile, and it's now arriving in Warzone with Season 1. With that dropping today, the team wanted to update everyone on how things are going after a few weeks of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and with what's ahead. Check out the details below.

Season 01 arrives today, bringing with it the integration of Call of Duty®: Warzone™. #TeamRICOCHET has been watching matches closely since launch, learning fast, and strengthening the systems that protect your experience, whether you’re playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 or Call of Duty: Warzone.

For Season 01, we’re raising the bar again to keep your matches clean, fair, and fun by rolling out major improvements to our systems. We’re improving how we detect boosting, expanding TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot requirements to Call of Duty: Warzone, and introducing the Secure Attestation Wizard – a new tool coming later in the season to help players quickly verify that their PC meets our security requirements.

The goal is simple: cleaner matches, faster detections, and a more secure foundation for every player.

Season 01:

• TPM 2.0 + Secure Boot are now required to play Call of Duty: Warzone
• Secure Attestation Wizard: New Activision tool coming later in Season 01 to help confirm your PC meets our security requirements
• Stronger boosting detections deployed
• Continued cheat prevention pressure: Shut down over 50 cheat providers, including major vendors, and disrupted nearly 300 reseller operations over the last year 

TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot required to play Call of Duty: Warzone

TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are now required to play Call of Duty: Warzone, just as they were for the launch of Black Ops 7. These settings help us lock out a major entry point for cheats by ensuring your PC starts in a trusted state.

Here’s what each feature does:

• Secure Boot: Makes sure your system launches in a trusted state.
• TPM 2.0: Validates key components we rely on to protect your matches.
• Remote Attestation: A process we use to verify your security settings through trusted external servers, making it significantly harder for cheaters to send us false information about their systems.

We know enabling TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot can mean a few extra steps for some PC players, but these settings protect the integrity of your matches. They’re foundational to keeping cheaters out. Your efforts here help us keep the game fair for the whole community.

Later this season, we’re launching the Secure Attestation Wizard - a tool that provides a quick way to verify that your PC meets our security requirements. The wizard will help you confirm whether everything is configured correctly and offer guidance if anything needs adjustment.

For players who want more detailed instructions, we’ve also put together TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot setup guides and tutorial videos.

Read more about how to enable these features in our step-by-step guide.

Upgraded Boosting Detections

Boosting has become an increasingly disruptive form of unfair play. It’s cheating and it devalues the time you put into the game. It's also a violation of Activision’s Software License and Service Agreement, as well as the Security and Enforcement policy. 

By boosting, cheaters illicitly unlock content they haven’t earned, and that content persists in their inventory between matches. We’re improving our detections for this type of behavior because the broader cheating landscape has shifted.

When unlock-all exploits were shut down, cheaters pivoted. Instead of instantly unlocking gear, many now rely on paid boosting or botting services to artificially level accounts and make them more desirable for resale.

With Season 01, we are rolling out improved systems to catch these behaviors and quickly enforce against them. These improvements target both the boosted accounts and accounts powering the service behind them, helping shut down the entire ecosystem around artificial progression.

Boosting gives bad actors shortcuts they haven’t earned. We’re closing those gaps, so your progression stays fair and meaningful.

Taking on Cheat Vendors and Reseller Networks

Cheaters don’t operate alone — there’s an entire ecosystem of developers and reseller networks behind them. We’ve spent the last year targeting those operations directly, and the results matter for every player.

Over the past year, #TeamRICOCHET has:

• Shut down over 50 cheat providers, including major vendors and nearly 40 reseller groups
• Disrupted nearly 300 reseller operations through ban waves and legal action

These efforts removed entire distribution channels, making it harder for cheat vendors to operate. We’re continuing to apply that pressure in Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone, raising the standard for anti-cheat protection across the industry.

Fair, fun gameplay is at the heart of everything we build. As Season 01 unfolds, we’ll keep moving fast, detecting cheaters, upgrading protections, and sharing what we learn along the way.

Follow @CODUpdates on X for real-time updates, information from upcoming Progress Reports, and more. You can also find us on Reddit as u/RICOCHETcm.

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