Riot Games has intensified its crackdown on cheating in Valorant, deploying updates to its Vanguard anti-cheat system that target advanced hardware-based cheating setups reportedly worth up to $6,000 (approximately £4,500).
According to Tom's Hardware, the latest enforcement wave specifically disrupts Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheat devices, specialised external hardware used to bypass traditional anti-cheat systems by reading game memory through secondary systems rather than the main PC.
