A Comparative History Of Beaming Pasters | Phillip Koskinas, Director of Anti-Cheat at Riot Games

Phillip Koskinas is the current director and OG founder of anti-cheat and Vanguard at Riot Games. Before that, he built and sold cheats. He was making around $120k a month as a student with cheats for Gunz: The Duel, and Riot first reached out after he publicly broke League of Legends. This talk walks through that whole arc: how he got in, how cheating actually works under the hood, and what Riot does to make cheaters lives miserable. 0:00 What "beaming pasters" actually means 1:37 Who Phillip is (and his Super Hexagon record) 3:14 From actuarial science to selling cheats 3:53 Gunz: The Duel — $120k a month as a student 6:10 Breaking League of Legends 9:08 Riot reaches out 10:28 Joining the risk team: bots and a $270M clawback 12:44 The rise of scripting 15:12 How much scripting actually helps (the win-rate data) 17:10 What an anti-cheat team does 18:27 The tenets: "default to trust" and "Batman, not Superman" 21:00 The war in the mind 22:52 Ranked refunds 23:36 The core loop: trust scores, models, and InstaBan 27:13 Who Riot hires for this work 30:32 Measuring success: games given to cheaters 32:59 Why they don't ban every cheater instantly 35:48 Anti-cheat in 2026: League moves to Vanguard 38:54 Where cheaters go next — pixel bots, DMA, internal 42:25 How a pixel bot works 44:26 Getting the screen read off the host (the two-PC trick) 46:18 Fighting off-host cheats: USB pass-through and aim analysis 51:57 Why cheaters won't just get good 53:16 Who cheaters really are 55:06 The Vanguard "beast" prank 56:10 Q&A 56:27 How accurate are player cheat reports? 59:20 How Phillip got into this 1:03:04 Hardware cheats and gaming monitors 1:06:17 New mouse tech, and where the line is 1:07:49 Does the actuarial science degree help? 1:09:37 A question from his mom Recording date: 4/18/2026 Music Credit: ⁨‪‪@sharp1842‬ #Riot #Vanguard #AntiCheat #Valorant #LeagueOfLegends #GameSecurity #Cheating #GameDev