To my understanding, many of these devices are detectable by anticheat: https://www.reddit.com/r/Csgohacks/comments/19dbut1/dma_chea...
Anything that's plugged into the machine can be poked, prodded, and logged to a central database by anticheat software.
Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?
by Hikikomori on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:53PM
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If you just go and buy a card and use the normal firmware you're gonna get banned. Cheat creators make custom firmware to avoid that. It might be that Faceit is small enough to investigate cheaters thoroughly to get most of them, and with their reputation it might discourage most to even try. But I don't think that scales enough for big games unless you have Riot money.
DMA cheats are not detected. What happened is thousands of cheaters all bought firmware from the same guy, and Riot was able to determine via stats that this group of people with the same obscure "network card" had outlier stats, and they banned them all. DMA is by definition not detectable, but human idiocy is.
https://captaindma.com/shop/
There's also hardware aimbot/triggerbot that reads your video output then sends input to a device connected to your mouse.
Its not what your everyday cheater has in free to play games like cs or cod but there are games where it matters more if you're banned, and when cheat subscriptions can be $100-200 a month the hardware cost isn't much.