Popular CSGO Youtuber ‘Sparkles’ has exposed a new and devastating kind of cheat in the first-person shooter by Valve. While we’re still in the dark on how long have these sorts of cheats been existing, it can be safely said that the majority of the player base wasn’t aware of its presence.
The traditional CSGO hacks that you’ve heard of in the past are software-based cheats that modify and alter the game’s memory, making them vulnerable to anti-cheat systems like VAC or the ESEA anti-cheat.
However, these ‘Hardware Cheats’ can make your computer run cheats without loading any kind of software into the system, thus making it undetectable by most anti-cheat software out there.
These hardware cheats work by inserting a chip in the motherboard of the target PC which reads the game memory without running any software. The chip acts as a medium between the mouse and the PC and alters the incoming signals to precisely match the enemies’ positions regardless of how incorrect your actual mouse movements are.
For instance, you can configure the cheat in a way that if you see an enemy approaching and you hover your mouse anywhere near them, your gun will automatically start firing with perfect accuracy and land the kill even if you don’t click your mouse buttons.
To make matters worse, these cheats can be easily used in ESEA or FACEIT tournaments without being detected by the organizers. The cheat is shown up as something trivial like a graphics card or an ethernet adapter on your PC, which doesn’t arouse much suspicion and is nearly impossible to detect when configured properly.
The hardware cheat which Sparkles exposed contained several kinds of hacks including aimbot, triggerbot, force hitting, and recoil control. Some other features still in the works include a radar hack and a 3d audio cue system which aids users in identifying enemy positions.
What’s rather scary is that we might just be looking at the tip of the iceberg here. Cheaters may be already using these cheats in big leagues while being out of their anti-cheat radars.
If a form of detection is made available for these hardware cheats in the future, there’s always a possibility that big names attached to the professional scene may surface to have used these in the past.
