In a recent blog post, the team at Battlestate Games revealed that 54% of 25,000 players banned from January to March 2026 were cheating, while the other 46% were doing something else. That includes engaging in RMT from both a buying and selling perspective, and using automated levelling bots, account scripts, and ‘other prohibited software’. The team at Battlestate Games also tried to clean up a few myths about Escape from Tarkov‘s ecosystem. They confirmed: Ban waves are happening daily Since the game came out in November, the number of compromised accounts has risen, as has the number of b
Only 54% of Recently Banned Tarkov Players Were Cheating… As part of a larger anti-cheat update to coincide with the game's 1.0 release, Battlestate Games revealed that it will now "step away from posting the lists of the cheaters banned and instead will try answering most hot topics surrounding cheater combating as well as provide more in-depth statistic… …
… A recent stream of Black Ops 7 revealed a cheater lost their weapons mid-match after being detected by Ricochet, as seen in the clip below.Activision has struggled to keep hackers completely out of Black Ops 7 and Warzone, but Ricochet anti-cheat is still working to ban them mid-match. …
… There just aren't enough meaningful punishments to deter the vast majority of cheaters. Unfortunately, with Marvel Rivals being a free-to-play game account bans aren't enough as new ones are so easy to make; instead, harsher restrictions are needed like hardware or IP bans. …
… In response, our security teams have initiated an immediate, targeted purge." Watch on YouTube Slightly concerningly, the cheats were caught by Marvel Rival's "automated penalty system", it sounds like, which is trained by the security team that monitors the game for cheats in multiple ways. …
… The developers have also dispelled rumours that Marvel Rivals’ anti-cheat system can be bypassed by manipulating launch parameters, calling them completely false. It merely bypassed a screen that notified users that anti-cheat was running, without disabling the anti-cheat itself. …
… "We have a zero-tolerance policy around cheating. We're actively banning confirmed cheaters and expanding our telemetry and detection methods to better catch the aforementioned cheaters," Bungie's post reads. …
… Valve has struggled with cheaters on Steam before, and its technology hasn't always been up to the task. In late 2023, Valve's Anti-Cheat VAC System doled out false bans for simply moving your mouse too quickly in Counter-Strike 2 . …
… Call of Duty Streamer Banned for Using QuadStick Accessibility Controller While Call of Duty 's RICOCHET anti-cheat system has proven effective in catching cheaters, one content creator said that they received a temporary ban after their setup was flagged. …