Valve, which wanted to detect cheating users due to a vulnerability in Dota 2, trapped cheaters using the same vulnerability.
Dota, which is seen as the first modern MOBA game series in the gaming world, is still played by millions of players and has the largest esports prize pool in the world, although it is overshadowed by League of Legends today.
Although Dota 2 is much more introverted compared to other games and “playing the game by the rulesAlthough it has a community of players, sometimes cheaters can come out of this community. Valve, on the other hand, announced that it uses a remarkable method to detect these cheaters.
Cheaters betrayed themselves with the “Honeypot” method
In the article published on the official site of Dota, for the last few weeks, Dota 2’s client has a vulnerability and some players are using this vulnerability. It was announced that he cheated with 3rd party cheating software. Valve officials, who are aware of the cheats from the first day, prepared a patch for the game and said that the players using this vulnerability “honeypotIt was detected by the ” method.
The honeypot method is a trap method often used by hackers for a while. In this method, the person who sets the trap, openly presenting data or information that the victim cannot refuse sets a digital trap around the data. The victim, who is attacked in the hope of obtaining the data, reveals himself in order to gain access to this “sweeter than honey” information and is caught in the trap.
So how did Valve catch these cheaters?
According to Valve’s statement, after the cheat was noticed, the authorities patched this vulnerability with the “Honeypot” method. started waiting by integrating a system that would report the user’s ID to Valve officials. in a few weeks detecting 40,000 cheaters in total authorities banned the entire cheater by IP ban and “Hardware Ban” permanently removed from the game. He also stated that professional players who were found to be involved in this cheat were also permanently banned.
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