Javelin Anticheat year in review: 26.7M cheat attempts blocked
A year-in-review report on EA Javelin Anticheat puts the past 12 months at 26.7 million cheat attempts blocked across 20 titles and 57.1 million players, with detection accuracy above 99% and a false-positive rate under 1%. On PC, Battlefield 6 added a TPM 2.0 requirement, and more than 4.8 million players have switched on Secure Boot since the configurable requirement debuted with Battlefield 2042.
Beyond the headline totals, the report covers performance work on the anticheat itself, the hardware-cheat front, and what the team is building next.
Startup performance: game launch times are 60% faster, and the anticheat's own launch time has been halved
Anti-tamper system runs 20% faster with a 10% smaller footprint
AMD Anti-Lag compatibility: a fix reached 45,000 affected players within 48 hours in October 2025
Seven major security upgrades shipped this year, plus hundreds of incremental ones, targeting DMA hardware and input manipulation
Cronus Zen and Strike Pack: EA's talks with maker Collective Minds ended with EA-related cheat content being pulled
New titles brought under Javelin this year: skate., Battlefield Labs, Battlefield 6 and EA SPORTS College Football 27
Native ARM64 support for Windows devices is next on the roadmap
The report also puts the going rate for cheat subscriptions at $20–150 a month.