In one of the slightly funnier stories heard today, it seems that one CS: GO player decided to take the matter of hackers into their own hands like some virtual vigilante. By releasing a bunch of false multihacks over the course of two weeks, they've managed to get around 3,000 cheating players banned.
The multihacks extended the in-game viewing angles as well as supplying a constant stream of ammo and health for the players who applied them. However, they also did some behind the scenes stuff that to the anti-cheat system made them completely obvious that something fishy was happening.
"The first two releases had a "timer" in them which meant the features that instantly VAC banned them would only be activated after a certain time (e.g. 10 PM on the day after the release)," writes Redditor AndroidL, who is behind the honeytrap hacks. "the final hack (with over 3.5k downloads) just instantly VAC bans them as soon as they open the hack and join a game."
The hacks recieved over 26,000 views and around 5,500 downloads in all, resulting in the 3,000 account ban. In case you're wondering what that looks like, there's a nice chart available as well as an Imgur album with some responses from those caught out (including an ex-staff member!):
No matter what you think of AndroidL's actions, you've got to admit it's just a little bit funny. I'm hoping that Valve won't throw the book at them, or if they do not too hard. After all, the cheaters got hit because they broke the rules and tried to game the system.