Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Beta is now live and as he expected, the scammers descended on it.
Earlier this week Activision said that it was perfectly aware that fraudsters would hit the beta version because they had previous Betas Call of Duty, but they were satisfied with the attack that was to come.
“Fraced will try to test boundaries during the beta version,” said Activision. “This is what we want, because #teamricochet is here, watching, learning and removing how they appear. Every account permanently banned during the beta version will be banned in all Call of Duty titles, from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to future editions.”
Activision emphasized his novel detection of Aimbot, which, he said, is “one of the strongest detection systems we have ever built,” and its novel detection of hacking on the wall, “by making fraudsters that manipulate the game so that enemies are more difficult to escape.”
But a cursory look at social media shows many clips revealing fraudsters playing at Black Ops 7 Beta.
In the first hours, Black Ops 7 beta 🤦♂️ They are already cheaters pic.twitter.com/ok6hp6c4ki
– newfangled (@modernwood) October 2, 2025
Cheater on 1 Black Ops 7 Beta LMFAO !!! pic.twitter.com/kkw55vzao
– thread 🤍 (@nicari) October 2, 2025
According to Official Call of Duty Epiles X / Twitter accountMany accounts, which show that they operate hacks in clips, such as the above, have already been banned. Hope is of course that the data collected in this period will assist reduce the fraud when Black Ops 7 appears in November. But publishers such as Activision are faced by the battle uphill when it comes to codes. Indeed, EA faces the same problem with the competitive scorer Battlefield 6, whose open beta also saw fraudsters.
As part of the war with fraudsters, publishers begin to force PC players to enable TPM 2.0 and protected start start. EA did it with Battlefield 6, and Activision did it for Call of Duty. More will definitely happen.
These functions block modified equipment and unauthorized software to create an sincere, protected environment for all players, even when fraudsters augment their efforts. But it turns out to be effective, both Battlefield 6 and Black Ops 7 are waiting on the wings.
For now, however, some Call of Duty Console players do what they always do when a novel game appears in the series: Turn the cross to avoid PC players. Cheating is more common on PC (Activision recently confirmed the same amount, to the extent that he said If you think you died unfairly at the console, it is much more likely that they have used “Intel’s advantage” than codes). So some console players go straight into the Call of Duty settings to turn off the group on the entire board, only to adopt the potential of PC fraudsters, which ruined their day from the equation. At the beginning of this year, Activision added novel console playback options for the usual multiplayer mode, Although players on the PC who do not cheat, said they were unfairly punished.
If you want to jump into the beta version, when it is live, we have a guide on how to get to the beta BO7 Early Access version, as well as how to turn on the protected start of BO7 if you are on the PC. We also have details of all weapons to unlock BO7, and BO7 Twitch is falling, which you can get.
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