{"id":1047670,"date":"2026-01-18T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nRxSjNxDEsXsCqs7spmn9d"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:21:48","slug":"riot-is-flexing-its-anticheat-vanguard-by-placing-a-bounty-of-up-to-100000-for-anyone-brilliant-enough-to-find-and-report-gaps-in-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/riot-is-flexing-its-anticheat-vanguard-by-placing-a-bounty-of-up-to-100000-for-anyone-brilliant-enough-to-find-and-report-gaps-in-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot is flexing its anticheat Vanguard by placing a bounty of up to $100,000 for anyone brilliant enough to find and report gaps in the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Riot&#8217;s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. Well, it would have to be\u2014otherwise, Riot probably wouldn&#8217;t offer $100,000 to anyone who could seriously pick it apart.<\/p>\n<p>The bounty system has been in place pretty much since <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/valorant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valorant<\/a> was first launched a few years ago, but the idea still stands, and also seems like a great way to make a quick buck\u2014if you&#8217;re smart enough. It&#8217;s all part of a continued effort to strengthen the anticheat software. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riotgames.com\/en\/reporting-a-security-vulnerability\" target=\"_blank\">Riot is reaching out<\/a> to the &#8220;security research community&#8221; to &#8220;help us quickly repair security problems.&#8221; If you manage to successfully identify new issues, particularly really severe ones, you can head over to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/riot?type=team\" target=\"_blank\">Riot&#8217;s bounty program on HackerOne<\/a> to report said issue and wait for a reward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you\u2019re able to help us protect our players and their data by responsibly identifying new security issues for us to fix, you are awesome, and we want to reward you,&#8221; the bug bounty reads. &#8220;Qualifying bugs will be rewarded based on severity. Our minimum reward is $250 USD. Rewards are granted entirely at the discretion of Riot. Publicly disclosing your bug without coordinating with us may lead to being ineligible for a bounty. We will judge this on a case-by-case basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alerting Riot to &#8220;non-traffic volume based denial of service,&#8221; like a vulnerability that can crash a game server with an application and prevent a target client from joining games, is worth $5,000-$10,000. You could also get $1,000-$4,000 for issues that affect players in multiple game sessions, or $500-$2,500 when it only affects players in your game session.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are DDoS issues that can &#8220;identify and target individual players,&#8221; such as an exploit that connects a player&#8217;s IP address with their Riot ID without them being in-game, or a problem that allows &#8220;targeted in-game session disconnection.&#8221; Exposing either of these issues can be worth up to $100,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"8bBksmtjXnqyfUkFL9Mnw\" name=\"VALORANT 29_06_2022 16_54_36.png\" alt=\"Sova's recon arrow\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/riot-is-flexing-its-anticheat-vanguard-by-placing-a-bounty-of-up-to-100000-for-anyone-brilliant-enough-to-find-and-report-gaps-in-the-system.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future \/ Riot Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are more rewards on offer for finding vulnerabilities in Riot&#8217;s infrastructure, and cheats or exploits in Riot games, but the bounties on these are slightly smaller. Before you get too carried away, it\u2019s worth noting that Valorantgameplay bugs won&#8217;t be accepted and should just be reported to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support-valorant.riotgames.com\/hc\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\">player support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a complete coincidence that Riot&#8217;s bounty system has returned to the spotlight after all these years, as many are using it as a way to get a dig in at Call of Duty and its current flawed anticheat, Ricochet. As some players just ask Call of Duty to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/modernwarzone\/status\/1861528212523671588?s=46&#038;t=N5BL8hrQ6UBXDSynkLsTeA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;fight back&#8221;<\/a>, Twitch partner <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IceManIsaac\/status\/1861537991463711041\" target=\"_blank\">IceManIsaac jokes<\/a>, &#8220;Activision is offering up to 100 COD Points to anyone that finds a replacement to their anticheat system, Ricochet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Activision has just reported another significant banwave, with 19,000 accounts affected, players are still finding some significant drawbacks to Ricochet, namely its bad habit of shadowbanning innocent players.<\/p>\n<p>But even though Ricochet may not be as effective as Vanguard, players still take issue with both anticheat systems. Vanguard and Ricochet both use <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-controversy-over-riots-vanguard-anti-cheat-software-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">kernel-mode drivers<\/a>. These will start up with Windows and run even when you&#8217;re not playing any Call of Duty or Riot games. They\u2019ll look at other drivers and can even block them from running if there&#8217;s a known vulnerability that could compromise the client. That said, since Vanguard was released alongside Valorant, there have been a few updates that have improved its performance, meaning it blocks fewer programs now.<\/p>\n<p>After Vanguard&#8217;s League of Legends rollout, there were multiple complaints about the anticheat messing up hardware. However, Riot Games has previously said it cannot <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/we-have-not-confirmed-any-instance-of-vanguard-bricking-anyones-hardware-following-its-league-of-legends-rollout-riot-says-but-there-are-definitely-problems-for-some-players\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;confirm any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone&#8217;s hardware.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s clear Vanguard isn&#8217;t perfect, and while it does seem to be performing better than Ricochet at the moment (or else Riot is careless with its bounty money), we&#8217;ve established it&#8217;s a pretty low bar. But just because it may not be the worst anticheat system around doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t try and chase the grand prize and earn some sweet cash.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/riot-is-flexing-its-anticheat-vanguard-by-placing-a-bounty-of-up-to-usd100-000-for-anyone-brilliant-enough-to-find-and-report-gaps-in-the-system\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot&#8217;s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. Well, it would have to be\u2014otherwise, Riot probably wouldn&#8217;t offer $100,000 to anyone who could seriously pick it apart. The bounty system has been in place pretty much since Valorant was first launched a few years ago, but the idea still stands, and also seems like a great way to make a quick buck\u2014if you&#8217;re smart enough. It&#8217;s all part of a continued effort to strengthen the anticheat software. Riot is reaching out to the &#8220;security research community&#8221; to &#8220;help us quickly repair security problems.&#8221; If you manage to successfully identify new issues, particularly really severe ones, you can head over to Riot&#8217;s bounty program on HackerOne to report&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/riot-is-flexing-its-anticheat-vanguard-by-placing-a-bounty-of-up-to-100000-for-anyone-brilliant-enough-to-find-and-report-gaps-in-the-system\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1047671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1047670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Riot is flexing its anticheat Vanguard by placing a bounty of up to $100,000 for anyone brilliant enough to find and report gaps in the system | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Riot&#039;s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. 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