EA has shared some new details about the first two days of Early Access for the Open Beta phase of Battlefield 6. According to the team, its Javelin anti-cheat system has already prevented 330,000 attempts to cheat in just two days.
EA claimed that users have reported 44,000 instances of potential cheaters during day one and another 60,000 so far today. The team is also using these with our own Gameplay Integrity team to add and improve our detections for Battlefield 6.
EA’s SPEAR Anti-Cheat Team has also gone into more detail about Secure Boot State. As AC said, Secure Boot was not meant to be a silver bullet. This feature alone will not prevent cheating. Instead, it can help the team figure out whether someone is cheating. It will also make it harder for cheat devs to create cheat programs.
“On Secure Boot, I want to be clear that Secure Boot is not, and was not intended to be a silver bullet. Secure Boot is how you’re helping us build up our arsenal. It’s another barrier that helps us make it harder for cheat developers to create cheat programs, and makes it easier for us to detect it when they do.”
Now, as I’ve already reported, there are already some cheaters in Battlefield 6. However, things are more complicated than you may think. You see, these cheats are not your traditional ones. They are not cheats that you can download and run on your PC. Instead, cheaters are using other methods to bypass the kernel anti-cheat systems.
Without going into a lot of technical stuff, the cheats to bypass the kernel-based anti-cheat systems work like this. They use special hardware that plugs into your PC’s motherboard to read from memory. Then, the cheat software runs on another piece of hardware. By doing this, the cheat software no longer runs on the PC that has Secure Boot (and for which Javelin is running). In other words, the cheat code is not running on the gaming PC. As such, it can bypass the anti-cheat systems.
To put it simply, your average teenager will not be able to use them. I’m not saying that there aren’t cheaters. We know there are. We’ve seen the clips. However, there might not be as many as you initially thought.
I don’t know how the devs will be able to detect and prevent these “special” cheats/hacks. Still, this is something they will have to figure out.
EA will open the beta to everyone later today. As such, everyone will be able to try it out. As I’ve reported, the game already runs great on PC. Yes, it does not have any Ray Tracing. And yes, you will notice areas in which RT would greatly enhance it. Still, this is a fast-paced multiplayer title. So, the balance ratio between its visuals and performance is pretty solid in my opinion.
Let’s just hope that EA has increased the server capacity. When the Early Access phase launched, there were long server queues. A lot of players, myself included, had to wait for over 40 minutes in order to get into a game. Things got better on Day 2. So, here is hoping that things will go smoother today.
Stay tuned for more!
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With such low level access its just a matter of time before the hackers will start to probe it for vulnrebilitys to exploit, back in the days securom was used to hide viruses for instance. While i hate cheaters… i hate to have a compromised machine due to unsecure lowlevel access anti-cheat and drm's even more.
We don't even see viruses anymore so you really don't have to be worried about them. I understand you're just saying you hate the trade-off, but especially if you have a separate PC for gaming and you also are somewhat intelligent and don't run risky software or click on suspicious things on the web, there's no concern. Windows XP, 7, ten customers a day w/ viruses. I might see one a year now.
"We don't even see viruses anymore" What alternate universe are you living in and how has news of the millions of ransomware attacks in recent years not reached that universe?
Also the entire concern about kernel level anti-cheats is the fact that because they run at a kernel level they would likely evade detection more easily, and for longer, while doing more damage than some random linkin_park.mp3.exe you would get off limewire. The user wouldn't even need to install anything.
We know for a fact one of the earliest kernel level anti-cheats was compromised by a former developer who used the elevated permissions to install a BTC miner on peoples PCs.
I literally touch 100+ different computers a month, I don't see viruses anymore. Of course they exist, but they are absolutely not at all present in any way similar to how they were 10+ years ago.
Another factor is unbeknownst to you, people don't download MP3s anymore AT ALL like they used to. Dumb very dated example. It is however a PERFECT example of how technology has changed and why viruses really are almost non-existent in the public sector.
I'm in IT for 20 years and computers since a 386. You can take my word for it. Yes, even if you have excellent security you don't surf the web on a server that's assigned a role, because that's a risk.
What we see now is nuisance software – cleaner, driver booster, optimizers – that pretend to help but actually charge you money and are more likely to cause you to bsod. Even the top few AV softwares are now a thing to guard against because they do data brokering and put ads in your searches. Even browser extensions which for a short while were at the top of the malware types is extremely uncommon.
More so what we see is phishing. Grandma clicked on something and now it says CALL MICROSOFT (etc) and she can't close the window. She calls, they get on her computer and try and bilk her for $500. It's a billion percent more effective to do phishing like this than hope someone gets a virus/ransomware.
So yeah, even very dumb people are safe from not just viruses, but malware in general. Fairly certain anyone who has even just a basic understanding or more like the commenter above has NOTHING to worry about.
You taking my "linkin_park.mp3.exe" example as literal says about all I needed to hear.
File sharing was literally the easiest way to get a virus. We don't file share at all like we used to, therefore in combination w/ Win 10 and newer having as-good-as-it-gets antivirus, We Don't See Viruses Anymore. It's a great example to my point.
But be a chickensht and use that to not reply to everything else because you can't because you know you're wrong. You're pathetic.
There's nothing else to reply to, just a masquerade of geeksquad "expertise".
Tactic 1, find a reason to not respond when you got owned.
Tactic 2, try and delegitimize an expert with name calling, reducing their experience whilst still providing no response. Nothing intelligent at all happening in your head. I owned you.
There's really no need to reply to me with your internal monologue, or post it publicly at all for that matter.
You're the one who felt the need to come at me on a topic you have zero knowledge about, but hey, it's a "monologue" lol. "MP3s".. what a dunce. Owned
While OS's etc have been pretty good at patching vulnerability and user behavior have improved we face new threats all the time.
Seems you haven't been up to date with bleeding edge PC security, in just months the threat vectors have escalated significantly. Why? AI start to get really good at mapping vulnerability in all from open source repository (think open SSL and the like) to os's and that allows new threats to emerge.
We only start to see the fallout from that AI arms race now and it will get bloody and fast by all indications, last we need is more low level running components just waiting to get dissected by AI that's far more adapt at looking at every nook and crany to find ways to exploit it.
And with users changed behaviors things like a simple capcha have started to get hijacked and its almost impossible for normal users to see the difference, you basically have open the jscirpt and look/decode the obfuscated domains they works with. One click on what looks legitimate is enough for it to get the malware install started and from there well you know if it you been working with computers as long as you claim.
I do security. I'm saying a competent computer user like yourself has nothing to worry about regarding getting a virus. Your comment now is focused on the future regarding AI. This was about right now and BF6… on a gaming PC. And even then, what is much more lucrative about AI for bad actors? Getting into your Steam / Epic Games account on your gaming PC or focusing on senior citizens that they target because they are hacking into corporate networks and databases?
You don't have to worry about a virus. I appreciate any questions or response you have for me, but there's no debate to what I said.
While OS's etc have been pretty good at patching vulnerability and user behavior have improved we face new threats all the time.
Seems you haven't been up to date with bleeding edge PC security, in just months the threat vectors have escalated significantly. Why? AI start to get really good at mapping vulnerability in all from open source repository (think open SSL and the like) to os's and that allows new threats to emerge.
We only start to see the fallout from that AI arms race now and it will get bloody and fast by all indications, last we need is more low level running components just waiting to get dissected by AI that's far more adapt at looking at every nook and crany to find ways to exploit it.
And with users changed behaviors things like a simple capcha have started to get hijacked and its almost impossible for normal users to see the difference, you basically have open the jscirpt and look/decode the obfuscated domains they works with. One click on what looks legitimate is enough for it to get the malware install started and from there well you know if it you been working with computers as long as you claim.
Wonder how many "cheat attempts" were people failing to load the client because secureboot wasn't on in their BIOS or because some people have had issues even when it is enabled. Going by the forums on Steam the average user has no idea how to even go into the BIOS.
Where are the bans. Where are the refund numbers for all these "cheaters"? Let's see transparency EA instead of curated language to trick people. Just like you trick people with streamers you are giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to shill this game like Timthetatman per other EA influencers like Zipp.
And they all wonder why their games are buggy on 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs …… Because most of them are 'scared' to update their BIOS and that is a necessity. In 37 years of working on the X86/X64 platform I only had one bad BIOS flash bricking a system and only because the power went out during the flash. That was in the 90's when the BIOS ROM was still a 16 pin DIP so I just pulled the chip and flashed it on one of my programmers and I was good as gold. Went out the next day and bought a UPS and have used one ever since.
The "new" B650 board I installed had 19 revisions (not counting beta versions) since the one that it came with and I bet there is a large percentage of people with that MB still using the original (buggy) BIOS
Yeah my BIOS failures have always been due to a power outage as well. Michigan sucks with weather sometimes and anyone doing it for a living and updating a BIOS constantly probably just adds a solution to deal with that. I only dealt with consumer stuff as a kid for a summer job. Was a different world back then. Every local computer shop pirated Windows on their installs to even make money, building a computer took like 10 minutes tops because we didn't have exotic cooling. We had a wood bench, PSU's attached to it and monitors and we tested if the MB/CPU and RAM lit up then screwed it into the board and added whatever "CAD" card was the best at gaming at the time and a sound card. ATi, Matrox, and then came the Voodoo 1 cards. By the time Nvidia hit I never had to deal with consumers again thank God lol. I feel for anyone that deals with retail customers all day. Legit some of the dumbest people I met in my life who would blame you for their own failures.
EA can eat a big bag of dicks, i aint messing around in the bios, to play one game, f*k that.
Its just a cat and mouse game; and cheat developers usually win. There are no competitive shooter games that are cheat free. I saw a video by basicallyhomeless youtuber that detects cheats by Ai algorithms, which I think is the way to go.
Yup 100 percent the way to go and they could escalate people to look at with a small team. They simply don't want to spend money on employees when they can give the illusion that they care. This game cost 400 million plus marketing. Let's see how that works out for them.
very informative articles or reviews at this time.
The anti cheat sh*t show is crap what ever happened to vote to kick when you new someone was a cheeting w*nker you were able to vote from both teams to kick that person from the game and get them banned.
But nowerdays were not in controll computer says no.
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i just dont understand why you want to cheat..
insecure, skill-less muppets.