Yesterday, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta began in earnest, welcoming in untold thousands of eager players to try the game out before its proper launch on the 14th November. However, a number of cheaters also seemed to let themselves in and get up to no good.
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta requires both TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot enabled on your PC to play, which Treyarch stated was needed to “create a more secure environment that catches more cheating.”
Within hours of the beta starting, however, clips started appearing on social media showing off wall hacks and aim bots working in the beta. Take the below video posted to X, which shows the same old cheats in action.
@ItsHapa wtf i thought it was gonna be new cod new anticheat changes? why are there cheats already up pic.twitter.com/erDg8ndaRU
— HateToSeeMeComing (@Hatetoseey5240) October 2, 2025
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Now, this account was later banned manually as confirmed by Treyarch on X, but why are old cheats working on a new game so soon after it was in the player’s hands? Well the updated version of Activision’s kernel-level Ricochet Anti-Cheat has not yet come to the game. Instead, players will have to wait until the full launch to get additional cheat protection.