Valve bans 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters through ‘honeypot’ patch

Valve released an update Dota 2 recently that patched an exploit used by players using third-party cheating clients, and in doing so, created a “honeypot” to catch those cheaters. This is The Dota 2Maker announced Tuesday it had banned over 40,000 cheaters playing in its multiplayer online battle area game.

Valve said the third-party cheating client allowed players to see information that isn’t normally available in-game, “giving the cheater an unfair advantage,” it said. Once installed, the Dota 2 developer understood how the cheat worked, it fixed the exploit but added the “honeypot,” what it said is a piece of data that regular players We would never see — but that the cheating client would read. Valve stated that all 40,000 accounts were banned in this wave.

“The prevalence of this family of cheats means that today’s ban wave is particularly large, but it’s only the latest action in an ongoing campaign,” Valve said. “While the battle against cheaters and cheat developers often takes place in the shadows, we wanted to make this example visible, and use it to make our position clear: If you are running any application that reads data from the Dota client as you’re playing games, your account can be permanently banned from playing Dota.”

Valve was highlighted that AllCheating players will result in professional sanctions. Dota 2 players. The company hasn’t said exactly what the third-party cheating program is or does. Polygon has reached Valve to get more details.

It is not enough to fight cheating. Dota 2Valve, and many other companies who make games are willing to have cheaters counted in order to prove their guilt. Bungie recently won a $4.3million lawsuit. Destiny 2 cheat developer AimJunkies — a website that sells cheats for a number of different games, including several for Valve’s own games. It won $4.3 million in addition to another $2 million. Valorant developer Riot Games in a settlement against cheat developer GatorCheats.