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Valve recently patched a known issue in Dota 2 that uses third-party software to cheat. At the same time, the developer set up a honeypot trap to catch players using the exploit. Valve has permanently banned over 40,000 accounts caught red-handed using the software to cheat.
Valve said this cheat is giving users an unfair advantage by accessing information used internally by the Dota client that shouldn't be visible during gameplay. After investigating how it worked, the developer then identified and removed the "bad actors" from the active Dota player base.