Cheating ruins games, creates unfair matches, and undermines the experience of Fortnite, for everyone in the lobby. We continue to actively combat cheating across multiple fronts:
Expanding Anti-Cheat System Requirements on PC
On February 19, we’re expanding Fortnite’s Anti-Cheat system requirements for PC players to all tournaments, requiring three security features to be enabled: Secure Boot, TPM, and IOMMU.
IOMMU is a security feature that helps the operating system control how hardware devices access system memory. This technology allows us to better protect our game memory from being accessed by cheat hardware.
If your PC is Windows 11-compatible (~95% of Fortnite players on PC), you likely already meet these requirements or can enable them without new hardware. Instructions on how to determine if your PC is compatible can be found here for Secure Boot, TPM, and IOMMU.
Legal Action to Combat Cheaters and Other Rulebreakers
We’re continuing our enforcement efforts against rulebreakers including account sellers, cheaters, and cheat developers. Most recently, we took legal action against a player who used cheats in Fortnite and conducted DDoS attacks on our servers. They’ve been issued a lifetime ban from all of Epic’s games and services.
Here are some other actions we took throughout 2025:
A tournament cheater ignored our lawsuit and the court ruled in our favor, resulting in a $175,000 judgment.
We filed a lawsuit against an individual who developed and sold cheating software, and several people who helped sell this software.
We reached settlements with a tournament cheater who was helping others cheat, a cheat seller and DDoSer, and an individual who stole and sold Epic accounts.
Illegal conduct that breaks our rules will result in a ban at minimum, and may also involve legal repercussions and the loss of money made from these offenses.
Other Ways We Fight and How You Can Help
To keep Fortnite fair, we fix game-breaking exploits before they spread, make game systems harder to reverse-engineer, and use Easy Anti-Cheat’s kernel-level protection to guard the game while it runs. We also watch for suspicious behavior using data and machine learning, and continue developing new detection methods to spot and confirm cheating more effectively.
Additionally, in-game reports help us identify and action cheaters every day so please report it if you encounter suspicious behavior.
