Over 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters fall into Valve’s trap, permanently banned

Over the past few weeks, more than 40,000 Dota 2 players have been banned after they were caught using third-party software to cheat in the games. Dota 2 developer Valve hasn’t disclosed what the software was, but said in a detailed blog post that the app in question was able to access internal data used by the Dota client. Under normal circumstances, this information should not be available to regular players, as this would provide an unfair advantage. However, after learning how the cheat worked, Valve set a trap via a downloadable patch, which contained a “secret” area in the client that could only be accessed using third-party software. Naturally, players caught in the trap were soon hit with the heavy end of Valve’s ban hammer.

“This patch created a honeypot: a section of data inside the game client that would never be read during normal gameplay, but could be read from these exploits. Every account banned today was accessed from this ‘secret’ area of ​​the client.” read, giving us the utmost confidence that each restriction was qualified,” statement From valve reads. This wave of sanctions is certainly huge, but Dota 2 Wanted to set a visible example to the community, there was no exception for professional players who, if caught cheating, would be banned from all of Valve’s competitive/esports programs. These initial bans should also prevent any potential cheaters, who are safe for now, from continuing their nefarious activities – whether it’s auto-aim for abilities, when a target comes into close range, combat Champions attack correctly, seeing through fog, and more.

Valve concludes by claiming it will continue to pursue cheaters Dota 2 By removing new exploits as they come in, and thanking everyone who personally reported players and investigated Overwatch cases to deal with appropriate punishment. In recent times, the US-based company is not the only one trying to weed out fraudsters from its ecosystem. earlier this week, Ubisoft banned about 19,000 Accounts whose owners were found to be using cheats within their game. The company hasn’t disclosed the specifics of which games or what type of software was used.

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