Bungie has banned a swathe of Destiny players for manipulating network traffic in order to cheat in PvP.

In the developer's weekly update, it said, "Yesterday and today, our Security Response Team has restricted access to the Crucible by the worst offenders among us all."

"We started with a look at the most notorious cheaters that had been reported by other players. After a cross-reference against our own player-data, we gave the Banhammer a mighty swing. Contained in its blast radius were hundreds of people who have manipulated network traffic."

The so-called "lag switch" cheat involves unscrupulous players disrupting their outgoing network traffic, enabling them to move around maps and perform actions and attacks while other players appear still.

Lag-switchers appear to other players to teleport around the map scoring easy kills with impunity.

Bungie also urged wronged players to use the built-in reporting tools to fight cheaters, rather than shaming them via YouTube videos, which doesn't factor into the banning process.

Destiny's latest expansion, The Taken King, launches September 15 on new-gen consoles.