Are there hackers/cheaters on consoles?

@jokool_aid

I play in a community of pred and masters players and I can 100% assure you that a statistically significant (higher than 15%) number of players at this level are leveraging cheats to win more and enhance their rank.

The biggest methods are aim-reduction devices and teaming with other players to secure RP in ranked lobbies; the former (anti-recoil devices) are very prevalent in Diamond to Pred lobbies. It’s bad (no hyperbole).

@jokool_aid 

PC 3rd party exploits like aimbots, esp radar can't not run Microsoft's hardware consoles from after 2013 onward. The code is digitally signed every step of the way. Also the games run in a VM on Xbox hardware. Even if someone got the code for exploits in a game and got it signed, another title wouldn't be able to read that data

Not sure about PlayStation (linux based OS), but never heard of 3rd party scripts running on the system from 2013 onward.

There are people who use 3rd party controller devices to reduce recoil, but really no way for companies to stop those devices as USB only reports back as a controller anyways.

The general rule, if the person is on console and you expect that user of aimbot, it's doubtful. Reduced recoil, could be, but that's 90% the worst you're going to see. There are worse ways to cheat on console/s, but not going to name it.

No cheaters on console? ??

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I can’t say for certain but I sometimes felt like I was on the receiving end of someone using one of these. While it is true you can’t jailbreak the PS4 or 5 like you could do with the 3 there will always be people who find a workaround.

@E9ine_AC 

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• 1.) The XB1 has not been hacked yet, so it can only run signed code when not in Dev mode. Meaning that you are always playing the same game code as everyone else. Nobody can load an aimbot or map hack on the device to run alongside the game. Even if they disassembled the console and hooked it to a PC, they could copy apps to it, but they wouldn't be signed so they wouldn't run.
  
  
• 2.) Apps and games are segregated into sandboxes. Meaning another app or game (in this case), can't read/write/modify another game or apps's files. Meaning if you wrote a custom aimbot and hid it in another game and published it to the store (it would then be signed), it still wouldn't work because it couldn't access any other game's data.
  
  
• 3.) VM architecture. XB1 is using a virtualized environment with the app VM and game VM running concurrently next to each other. This means that even if you hacked one of the VMs you couldn't access the other unless you found an exploit to jump out of the VM. This is incredibly hard with Hyper-V (as it is used in enterprise) and security is taken very seriously. However it is not impossible.
  
  
• 4.) No memory exploit has been found. A memory exploit would be a buffer overflow or under run that would let one app rewrite another app's memory. Since Windows uses DEP (which randomizes where data is stored in RAM when launched. it is different every time) to protect against this, I would assume the Xbox does also. So even if you found an overflow or under run bug in an app, you would be overwriting unknown data in RAM which would be completely useless, and almost always create an app/game/or OS crash.
  
  
• 5.) People "hacking" in game, are almost certainly exploiting a glitch in the game's code to gain an advantage. Many FPS shooters have had various glitches that allowed going under the map, above the map, or otherwise invincible.

I only have 2 mega sus moments on PS4. I mean like PC players experience constantly judging by Twitch. One game I got beamed by R301 from 70-80m, while jumping and juking to no avail as I was downed in 0.5 second. Then the same happended to my teammate a few seconds later. We were last squad so couldn't spectate. The only thing is that I was kl with 4 or 5 kills. I would assume if he was cheating he'd have more kills than that.

The second time was a Horizon who had completely decimated my teammates earlier in the game, I barely got out with like 10hp. I see her alot in the killfeed during the rest of the game. Again I couldn't spectate as I got 3rd and 2nd died to her 10 seconds later. But yeah, she beamed me from 80-100m.

Other than that I have felt sussed out on other occasions but these two times I really felt like "no way", especially the Horizon as she killed 1/3 of the lobby.

Every * with a strike pack or * like that enter the cheaters category for me, so yes, they are many on consoles too.