Call of Duty Warzone Hacks: What Gets You Banned

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Aimbots, wallhacks and unlock tools are all sold openly for Warzone, and Ricochet is built specifically to catch them. Here is what a ban actually costs.

Call of Duty Warzone hacks are a persistent problem on PC, sold openly through grey-market storefronts, and the risk to your account is worse than most buyers expect going in.

What's actually on offer

Aimbot software that locks or assists aim beyond human reaction speed.
ESP/wallhacks revealing enemy positions through walls.
Unlock and camo tools that fake progression without playing for it.

Nearly all of them require bypassing or disabling anti-cheat to run, which is itself the biggest warning sign — no legitimate tool needs that.

Ricochet anti-cheat

Activision's anti-cheat combines a kernel-level PC driver with server-side detection built specifically against this category of software. Detections escalate to account bans and hardware bans, the latter following the machine rather than just the account.

The account is shared

A Warzone ban lands on your Activision ID, which every Call of Duty title you own shares — it doesn't stay contained to Warzone alone.

The other risk

A large share of "free hack" downloads are malware, not working software — reason enough on its own to leave them alone.