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Trapping game cheats with a honeypotted exploit

Seamus Byrne
Seamus Byrne
— 1 min read

Valve pulled off a solid anti-cheat switcheroo that saw over 40,000 accounts banned for using a third-party cheating client. After fixing the cheat, Valve added a special honeypot to identify exactly who was running the cheat before dropping the hammer. Solid crackdownery.

Valve set a trap to catch and ban 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters
The update added a ‘honeypot’ to catch cheaters
PolygonNicole Carpenter
Games
Seamus Byrne

Seamus Byrne

Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.

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