A major incident occurred during a professional tournament where a hacker ("Destroyer2009") was able to remotely inject cheats like aimbots and wallhacks into the PCs of pro players while they were live.

Respawn can ban the device itself, preventing new accounts from playing on that hardware.

Flagged players may be silently moved to "hacker-only" matchmaking pools.

Bullets hit targets even if the crosshair is slightly off.

Tools like Cronus Zen , XIM, and Titan trick consoles or PCs into thinking a player is using a controller, granting aim assist to mouse-and-keyboard users. These are now targeted for permanent bans.

These utilize external hardware (like a second computer or dedicated card) to read game memory without running software on the gaming PC. While traditionally harder to detect, Respawn has recently "nuked" many of these paid setups.