Dark Ops 6 Takes a Stand: Eradicating Cheaters with a Massive Ban Wave of 136,000 Accounts

Additionally, around 136,000 ranked play accounts have been suspended for cheating during both Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone.

In a comprehensive update shared on social networks, developer Treyarch stated that it acknowledges cheaters “are irritating and significantly affect the experience for our community” but affirmed it was tackling the issue, and will continue to do so “throughout 2025”.

Part of these initiatives includes “new layers of security and protection measures”, as well as updated detection tools for behavioral patterns such as aim botting, and “additional data points”, which encompass “account trust and hardware identifiers to target habitual cheaters”.

Players will also witness new detection and alert systems for spam reporting and improved harmful behavior assessment tools to reduce the time it takes to process reports.

From Season 2 onward, players can expect enhanced client and server-side detections and systems, alongside “significant” kernel-level driver updates that not only bolster driver security but also improve the encryption process and introduce a new tampering detection system.

Treyarch emphasized that “malicious reporting violates security and enforcement policies”, noting that if a user spams the report button in-game numerous times against another user – or someone utilizes an illicit cheat tool to spam 10,000 reports – its system “does not consider more than one single report from a player against another (regardless of what cheat developers are telling players when promoting their illegal software)”.

Interestingly, when a cheater is detected,