Riot Games newest title “Valorant” installs kernel driver to run anti-cheat

Article note: Installing a kernel-mode rootkit to combat cheating in a game seems really excessive to me, and like an incentive for even-more-intrusive cheating mechanisms to propagate malware, but I've never really taken multiplayer anything seriously. Edit: Oh. https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1249901037160284161 They do. I'm surprised the cheat market hasn't moved on to hardware, an HDMI tap and USB HID device emulator on a little attached computer could do a lot, as could a carefully tampered network card.