Recently, Battlestate Games studio published a new report on combating cheaters in Escape from Tarkov. The developers spoke about the integration of an automated cheat detection system:
Our priority remains not just detecting and subsequently banning offenders, but reducing the number of raids a cheater manages to play before being banned. Launching the first iteration allows us to collect additional statistics needed to refine the system and preemptively detect cheaters.
They are also developing telemetry. According to the developers, this is also useful for improving netcode and will allow “shutting down various functionality that might have previously been accessible when using prohibited software.”
The developers had not published a “wall of shame” in a long time and have now shared fresh data: since January 2026, we have banned over 55,000 accounts.
As usual, some cheaters used various references to Battlestate Games boss Nikita Buyanov as their profile names. For example, “Buyanov_tut” and “BUYANOV1222” ended up on the list of banned accounts. The full list of banned players is available at the following link.