

Riot explained its decision to implement the system in a blogpost. Vanguard comes attached with any Valorant download, and is automatically installed, and will run with high privileges, even when the game isn’t being played. Its a race to load first, if you can load first, you can hide from the anticheats. So, load your driver, then load the game with the anticheat services set to 'manual load' in services.msc. To bypass them, you manually map your driver before the anticheat loads. When the closed beta of Valorant launched earlier this month, players noticed that the Vanguard system is more invasive than other anti-cheat solutions. EAC and Battleye for example, are not running at boot. The main reason for the challenge being issued is to combat players’ security concerns. To reinforce our commitment to our players’ security, we are offering special bounties for up to $100,000 for high-quality reports that demonstrate practical exploits leveraging the Vanguard kernel driver.” Riot said on HackerOne: “Alongside our new game Valorant, we have deployed our new anti-cheat solution Vanguard that leverages a kernel driver to combat cheaters more effectively. The challenge was issued on HackerOne, a site where companies offer incentives to hackers for exposing security issues in their software.Īnyone who successfully does so, with high-quality reports, will get a bounty of up to USD $100,000.

Riot Games, the developer of Valorant, has issued a challenge to hackers that can “demonstrate practical exploits” in the game’s new anti-cheating system, Vanguard.
