PUBG developer Krafton has shared the way it banned over 30,000 accounts for DMA-based hacks again in August 2025 through an replace on the sport’s anti-cheat.
In mild of this, the entire variety of bans for DMA hacks has now reached over 80,000 within the builders’ efforts to create a ‘truthful and gratifying’ aggressive setting.
The 30,000 bans have been enacted after Krafton made enhancements to its proprietary anti-cheat system referred to as Zakynthos, geared toward combating DMA-based hacks. A DMA hack, or direct reminiscence entry, makes use of {hardware} to bypass the CPU and a recreation’s anti-cheat protections.
The modifications to the Zakynthos system are the most recent improvement inside PUBG’s anti-cheat roadmap for 2025, as Krafton strikes away from merely blocking cheats to ‘actual programs and motion’.
The builders notice the way it has lately detected hacks that ‘manipulate sure {hardware}’ to offer unfair benefits, comparable to decreased weapon recoil, which is towards the sport’s phrases of service. As such, 50,000 accounts have been completely banned for makes an attempt to bypass PUBG’s anti-cheat programs.
The replace would go on to record examples of prohibited actions inside PUBG. This contains linking hacks to different software program for ‘irregular gameplay’, tampering with software program for ‘unfair benefits’, and different types of ‘misconduct’.
How this impacts Esports
Dishonest is commonplace in gaming and might even be seen within the highest ranges of esports. Again in 2023, PUBG’s developer banned over 3.2m customers for dishonest, 33% greater than the yr earlier than it.
Instances in esports date again to 2019, when PUBG Corp, earlier than it merged with Krafton, issued aggressive bans to 10 gamers caught dishonest within the PUBG Europe League.
The sport has come a good distance since then, and the brand new Zakynthos system will assist preserve a good setting for future PUBG esports tournaments. These occasions embrace the PUBG International Sequence 9 and 10 in October this yr, the place the very best groups world wide will go head-to-head in Malaysia for the lion’s share of a $300,000 (~£223,756) prize pool.
