Valve traps Dota 2 cheaters with something only they can see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5WPGCPt80
Earlier this year, Valve banned some 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters by luring them into a trap only they could fall for. After detecting an uptick in players using cheating software, the MOBA developer implemented a bit of code that would only be activated by a specific cheat software, allowing them access to a secret area of Dota 2’s client. As such, Valve could reasonably suss out which users had the cheating software installed, and it then proceeded to ban them into oblivion. The company went as far as to publicize the episode as a warning for other cheaters, as there’s plenty of other Dota cheating software out there. Hopefully—for the sake of the game, and our own entertainment—Valve will come up with similarly sneaky ways of ousting cheaters in the future.
