This week in Anti-cheat & cheating · updated Fri Oct 23 2026
PC gaming's anti-cheat landscape faced multiple developments this week. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 introduced Server Culling technology to counter wallhacks by preventing servers from transmitting player location data through walls and obstacles, addressing a persistent vulnerability. Meanwhile, the upcoming Tomb Raider remake saw its Steam listing temporarily stripped of Denuvo anti-cheat protection, though whether intentional or procedural remains unclear given similar reversals with other titles. Separately, a security breach at Discord's third-party service Double Counter exposed roughly one million email addresses and partial data on tens of millions of accounts, highlighting vulnerabilities in gaming platform infrastructure despite payment information remaining protected.
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2K Games and Gearbox have released an update that strips Denuvo from Borderlands 4, more than a year after the PC version launched. The patch also addresses audio, visual, menu, and Photo Mode problems while adding a Ste…
Double Counter, a security service used by Discord, suffered a sophisticated multi-stage cyberattack that compromised approximately one million email addresses and partial information on tens of millions of Discord accou…
Amazon Game Studios has removed the Denuvo anti-cheat system from the Steam store page for the upcoming Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis remake, though it remains unclear whether this represents a deliberate decision or a…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will deploy a new anti-cheat system called Server Culling that prevents wallhack exploits by preventing game servers from sending player location data to clients when those players are behi…
Embers Adrift adjusted its combat recovery timer after players used it to regenerate resources in unintended ways. The delay before rested regeneration now starts after four seconds instead of fifteen, and being on an en…
Wardogs update 0.1.2 addresses XP and cash exploits, including server-authoritative revive checks and reduced rewards for certain actions. Bulkhead says it has reset progression for players caught abusing exploits or rea…