HWID Spoofer Battle.net COD — Ricochet 2026

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launched in late 2025 with Microsoft Remote Attestation enabled at the Ricochet kernel layer, it became the first major retail title to ship full chip-to-cloud hardware attestation. The follow-on effect was immediate: by Q1 2026, a wave of "BO7 HWID spoofers" appeared on the same sites that had previously sold Warzone bypasses, and almost all of them were either failing in days or shipping infostealer payloads. Microsoft's DCU 2,300-domain Lumma takedown in May 2025 had only paused that distribution pattern, not stopped it. By Q1 2026 the bait was rebuilt and the Black Ops 7 search trend was the new lure.

This post is a cluster of the HWID Spoofer Complete 2026 Guide pillar. The pillar covered the per-AC matrix; this piece is the deep read on the Blizzard / Activision side — Warden user-mode for Battle.net, Ricochet kernel for COD, and the Black Ops 7 Remote Attestation layer that sits above both.

Warden — The User-Mode Layer Across All of Battle.net

Warden is Blizzard's original anti-cheat. It dates to World of Warcraft circa 2005 and has been refined continuously since. Critically, Warden runs in user mode — it doesn't load a kernel driver of its own. It runs inside the protected game process and scans memory regions it can reach as a user-space process.

This makes Warden architecturally different from EAC, BattlEye, Vanguard, and NeacSafe. The advantages: lighter footprint, no driver-signing complications, less invasive to the user's system. The disadvantages: limited visibility into kernel-level cheats, can't perform the deep PCI configuration-space scans that BattlEye does, can't read TPM EK or Pluton attestation by itself.

What Warden DOES read at the user-mode layer:

Process memory scanning. Warden continuously scans the game process's memory regions plus accessible regions of other processes for known cheat signatures. The signature database is streamed from Blizzard's servers and updated continuously.

Module enumeration. Walks the loaded DLLs in the game process plus other reachable processes. Flags modules with cheat-pattern signatures.

Window enumeration. Walks visible windows on the desktop. Cheats with on-screen overlays sometimes get caught here.

Basic hardware identity via user-mode APIs. Reads what Windows exposes to user-mode: MachineGuid, Windows Product ID, basic SMBIOS via WMI, MAC addresses via standard API. These reads are shallower than what kernel-mode ACs can do, but they're enough for Battle.net's account-binding purposes.

Behavioral telemetry. Sends gameplay statistics to Blizzard's servers for server-side anomaly detection.

Warden's user-mode architecture means Battle.net account bans are typically account-level, not full HWID-level. Blizzard relies on the publisher-network ban model: ban the account, the user makes a new account, the new account can play on the same hardware. Battle.net does maintain some hardware correlation but the enforcement is weaker than EAC's.

The deeper What Is an HWID Ban cluster covers the diagnostic distinction between account-only bans and full HWID bans.

Ricochet — The Kernel Layer for Modern COD

Ricochet is Activision's per-title kernel-mode anti-cheat introduced in 2021 specifically for Call of Duty: Warzone and continued through Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III, Black Ops 6, and Black Ops 7. Unlike Warden, Ricochet is a full ring-0 kernel driver that loads alongside the COD client.

What Ricochet reads at the kernel layer:

SMBIOS firmware tables. Standard composite — UUID, motherboard serial, manufacturer, product, BIOS version. Direct firmware-table parse plus Windows API.

Disk serials. IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY path. SATA and NVMe coverage.

MAC addresses. NDIS-level read plus registry cross-check.

MachineGuid + Windows install state. Registry reads.

GPU device ID. DXGI enumeration.

RAM SPD serials. SMBIOS Type 17.

Kernel callbacks. Process creation, thread creation, image load, handle operations. Same approach EAC uses.

Memory signature scanning. Kernel memory regions plus user-mode game memory.

Anti-debug and anti-tamper. Validates Ricochet's own driver integrity.

TPM EK (Black Ops 7+). Added in BO7. The TPM 2.0 endorsement key is read via tpm.sys and included in the composite.

Microsoft Remote Attestation (Black Ops 7). This is the new layer. Ricochet integrates with Microsoft's Remote Attestation API to perform chip-to-cloud verification at session start. The client pings Microsoft's servers, the servers verify the entire boot chain cryptographically, and the result flows back to Activision's anti-cheat infrastructure. If the boot chain doesn't verify (because something modified the bootloader, kernel, or driver chain), Ricochet refuses to start the game.

Activision's transparency report documents the cumulative ban totals — 800,000+ HWID bans across COD titles by mid-2024 — and the rolling cadence of new mitigations. The 2026 report (when released) will document Remote Attestation's impact on the spoofer market.

The Black Ops 7 Microsoft Remote Attestation Problem

Remote Attestation is the technique that's reshaping anti-cheat strategy across the entire industry. Here's why it matters for HWID spoofers specifically.

Traditional HWID enforcement. AC reads hardware identifiers from the local OS. Spoofer hooks those reads. AC sees randomized values. Spoof works.

Remote Attestation enforcement. AC asks Microsoft's cloud to verify the entire boot chain. Microsoft's servers read the cryptographic attestations from Pluton (where present) or TPM 2.0 (where Pluton isn't), verify the bootloader, kernel, driver chain. The verification result is signed by Microsoft's keys. The AC receives the signed result. The spoofer cannot intercept this exchange because it doesn't go through any local API the spoofer can hook — it goes from silicon directly to Microsoft, then Microsoft to Activision's server.

A spoofer can hook every Windows API call related to hardware identity. It still doesn't see the Microsoft Remote Attestation exchange. The exchange happens at a layer the spoofer architecturally cannot reach.

Implications for Black Ops 7 specifically:

If your TPM EK is on the banned list (because Ricochet flagged it from a previous detection), Remote Attestation surfaces this directly to Microsoft, who reports it back to Activision, and the game refuses to start. No spoofer can solve this.
If your boot chain is modified (because a spoofer loaded as an unsigned driver), the PCR values reported by Remote Attestation reflect the modification. Ricochet sees the modification signal and flags.
If you've disabled Secure Boot to load an unsigned spoofer, Remote Attestation reports Secure Boot OFF, which is itself a flag for Black Ops 7 (and a hard block for the tournament tier).

The honest conclusion: Ricochet Black Ops 7 with Remote Attestation enabled is not credibly spoofable at Layer 1 in 2026. It's the same problem space as Vanguard but with Microsoft's cloud cryptographic enforcement layered on top. Same as Vanguard, vendors claiming a working BO7 spoof at consumer pricing are misrepresenting their product.

What Older COD Titles (MW2, MW3, BO6, Warzone Pacific) Look Like

The older COD titles run Ricochet but without Remote Attestation. The HWID enforcement is at the standard kernel composite level — same as EAC or BattlEye in scope. These are spoofable at Layer 1 by a competent commercial spoofer.

The covered identifier set for these titles is essentially identical to what Raw Spoofer randomizes:

SMBIOS (5 sub-fields) — covered
Motherboard serial — covered
Disk serials — covered
MAC addresses — covered
MachineGuid — covered
Windows Product ID + install date — covered
GPU UUID — covered
RAM SPD — covered (where readable)
USB controller IDs — covered
PCI device IDs — covered (DMA-safe range)
Monitor EDID — covered

The pre-BO7 COD titles don't read TPM EK or perform Remote Attestation, so the silicon-rooted identifiers don't come into play. A Layer 1 spoofer that hooks the kernel-driver read paths handles the full composite.

The Battle.net Account-Level Ban Cascade Problem

This is the wrinkle specific to Blizzard / Activision titles: account-level bans on Battle.net can cascade to all Blizzard titles regardless of HWID status. Get banned on Overwatch 2, your Diablo IV account may go down. Get banned on World of Warcraft, your COD account may go down.

The mechanism is publisher-network ban — Blizzard's terms of service let them ban the account across the network for cheat-related infractions. This isn't a HWID problem; spoofers don't help. The fix is a fresh Battle.net account, fresh email, fresh payment method.

Critically, this cascade is separate from the HWID-level Ricochet ban. A user can simultaneously have:

A Battle.net account ban (account-level, all Blizzard titles, no HWID involvement)
A Ricochet HWID ban (hardware-level, specific COD title)

Recovery requires solving both. New Battle.net account fixes the publisher-level ban. Raw Spoofer fixes the Ricochet HWID portion (for the pre-BO7 COD titles). Black Ops 7 specifically remains out of scope due to Remote Attestation.

The deeper recovering from a hardware ban workflow cluster walks through the multi-layer recovery sequence.

What Raw Spoofer Does Against Battle.net / Ricochet

For Warden user-mode (Battle.net core, Overwatch 2, Diablo, WoW): the user-mode hardware identity reads Warden performs are covered by Raw Spoofer's kernel-driver hooks because the user-mode WMI / API calls eventually flow through kernel paths that Raw Spoofer intercepts. Plus the account-level ban portion of Battle.net is solved by fresh account anyway.

For Ricochet pre-BO7 (Warzone Pacific, Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III, Black Ops 6): full kernel-driver composite coverage. SMBIOS, motherboard, disks, MACs, GPU, MachineGuid, Windows install state, RAM SPD, USB, PCI (DMA-safe), monitor EDID. Same model as EAC / BattlEye coverage.

For Ricochet on Black Ops 7 with Remote Attestation: not in scope. Same architectural reason Vanguard isn't in scope. TPM EK plus Microsoft chip-to-cloud attestation isn't credibly bypassable at Layer 1 driver level in 2026. If BO7 ranked is your target, you're in the same private-tier / wait-for-post-Pluton-generation problem space as Vanguard.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Raw Spoofer work for Overwatch 2?

Overwatch 2 runs Battle.net Warden user-mode without a dedicated kernel anti-cheat. The hardware identity reads are shallow. Raw Spoofer covers them at the driver-level interception, and pairs well with Raw Overwatch for the gameplay side. The deeper Overwatch HWID spoofer cluster covers Overwatch-specific edge cases.

Does Raw Spoofer work for Black Ops 7?

For the standard Ricochet kernel composite portion, technically yes — but the Microsoft Remote Attestation layer on top of that is what catches users. We don't market Raw Spoofer as a Black Ops 7 solution because the Remote Attestation portion isn't in scope. If your BO7 ban is purely Ricochet-level without Remote Attestation correlation (rare), Raw Spoofer may help. In practice, BO7 should be considered out of scope for consumer-tier spoofing.

Does Raw Spoofer work for Modern Warfare III, Warzone Pacific, Black Ops 6?

Yes. These run Ricochet kernel without Remote Attestation. Standard composite. Full coverage at the kernel-driver layer.

Is Warden's user-mode anti-cheat detectable from spoofer-friendly Windows tools?

Yes. Warden runs as a thread inside the game process. You can see its presence via standard process introspection tools. Knowing it's there doesn't help you bypass it — the cheat-signature scans run continuously and Blizzard updates the signature DB constantly. The deeper how HWID spoofers work cluster covers the architectural distinction between user-mode and kernel-mode AC enforcement.

Will the Remote Attestation rollout affect other COD titles retroactively?

Possibly. Activision's pattern has been to deploy new anti-cheat infrastructure to new titles first, then retrofit to existing titles after the infrastructure is stable. Modern Warfare III and Warzone Pacific are candidates for Remote Attestation backport in 2026-2027. Black Ops 6 is the most likely first backport target because it's the most recent pre-BO7 title still active. Raw Spoofer's posture: we monitor announcements, communicate when scope changes, and don't promise coverage of titles we haven't tested under the new enforcement layer.

Does a Battle.net account ban also ban my email address?

Often, yes. Blizzard's account bans frequently flag the associated email for future-account restrictions. Use a different email when creating a recovery account. Email-domain-based correlation is one of the easier signals to defeat — switching domains (different free email provider) typically defeats the email correlation.

Does the COD: Mobile / COD: Warzone Mobile use Ricochet?

No. Mobile titles use Activision's mobile-specific anti-cheat, which is a different codebase. Ricochet is PC-only (with limited Xbox / PlayStation integration for console cross-play security). Raw Spoofer is PC-only.

The Battle.net / Activision side of HWID enforcement is a mixed picture. Older COD titles plus Battle.net Warden are spoofable at Layer 1. Black Ops 7 with Microsoft Remote Attestation isn't. Raw Spoofer covers the parts that are in scope — Warden user-mode, pre-BO7 Ricochet, plus the cross-game coverage on the rest of the AC market. The HWID Spoofer Complete 2026 Guide pillar covers the full landscape; the TPM Pluton outlook cluster covers where Remote Attestation goes next.

HWID Spoofer for Battle.net — Warden, Ricochet, Remote Attestation (2026)