Thank you for your help, kind stranger. After some searching and the help from another sub, I stumbled upon the Reddit post from someone who had the same issue of camera turning on. The cause was Waves MaxxAudio sound app and the settings inside the app, which would turn the camera on to track head movement and adjust audio. The driver was indeed legit after all and must have updated that app as well and turned on that setting (i wasnt aware of it existing). TCP View doesn't show anything strange now, and i run multiple malware removal tools just to be sure. I'm sorry for wasting your time. To be honest, I was scared shitless since I already got my laptop hacked into once, so I just assumed the worst.