Game freezing issues

Hello guys, my game started to freeze lately, pretty often, 2-3 times per a 2hour gaming session.

Started to happen in the current season (S24). Dont remember exactly after which update.

Symptoms: freeze (stops moving, as if i was looking at  a screenshot, last sound keeps playing).

Windows does not crash, I can kill the game in the task manager, restart it and often make it back to the game and continue playing.

In the Windows logs: Event viewer, I found a warning saying something like “EasyCheat unable to bypass” 

I am not aware of having any software which could be identified by anticheat as a cheating tool. Dont have 3rd party antivirus (only Windows defender), nor do I have a 3rd party firewall.

I am playing Apex for years, and I dont remember this ever happening so frequently as now.

Was even thinking there must be some issue with my computer, when a friend of mine who plays comparably often confirmed to have the same issue lately..

I will be thankful for any help, hint, support to solve this.. it is getting so annoying I was even looking for another game to play instead.. :(