Blizzard bans 10,000 Overwatch ‘nuking’ cheaters in South Korea

Overwatch’s South Korean servers are overrun with cheaters, and Blizzard made a big move to put an end to this problem.

The publisher has banned more than 10,000 players on its South Korean servers, according to a post on its message boards. Blizzard specifically mentioned that it banned players using a new cheating tool called “nuking” that seemingly targets opposing teams with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) barrage that overwhelms their internet connection with junk data. The studio says that it is preparing countermeasures to fight nuking.