‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite

Re:‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC wit... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:23PM (#26800154)

I've recently broken into GN ranks on CSGO and am watching suspected cheats ... I can only think the first dozen videos are a test of me, because algorithmically spotting the cheating seems like it would be super easy. About half of mine so far only look at the floor, get only awp headshots. I mean, really?

I guess scammers money is just as green.

There are loads of farming accounts that just walk in a circle. Why do they put those players in matches with real players. If you're not going to ban them then at least honeypot them.

All seems needlessly lackadaisical.

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Re:‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC wit... by noxvilleza on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:46PM (#26801622)

Yeah, and annoyingly the paid platforms (like, FACEIT) have way fewer obvious cheaters - but also (due to the increased competition) a lot of subtle ones. Part of the problem is also related to the game going free-to-play, instead of taxing cheaters through time & cash, it's just time.

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Re:‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC wit... by sodality2 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:48PM (#26801636)

Faceit AC is technologically superior, it's not just the payment on-boarding. The cheats for faceit cost $200+ and are all private. There are free, open source, undetected cheats for CSGO that are VAC undetected for 4+ years. The difference is staggering

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Re:‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC wit... by noxvilleza on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:07PM (#26801800)

Agree on all counts - I'm just saying that if you dislike losing to obvious spinbots, then FACEIT is much better - but still have many (less obvious) hackers.

[On the topic of cheating, and as a comparison to CS:GO ... ] What's hilarious really is how common and in plain sight the Dota 2 cheats are: there are loads of cheat engines which people can even write their own Lua scripts to manage: and are hosted on Github. They have VK pages, customer support, registered companies, online reviews ... zero legal action taken against any of these companies that I'm aware of - and very limited work done to make the cheating more difficult.

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Re:‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC wit... by sodality2 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:32PM (#26801955)

Yeah, valve just doesn't care in the slightest, it doesn't require a kernel AC, but the slightest of changes could get tens of thousands of people banned using a free public cheat....

Faceit is essentially the gold standard to be honest. definitely it if you want a higher level of gameplay without cheaters. Wish there was a faceit for silvers, though

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Re:‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC wit... by willis936 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:24PM (#26802268)

An unknown number of overwatch matches are not recent games, but landmarks for behavior. Indeed you are being tested far more than you are training the system.

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