'Each of the accounts banned today read from this 'secret' area in the client, giving us extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved,' Valve explained. Valve detected these cheaters by creating a 'honeypot', or 'a section of data inside the game client that would never be read during normal gameplay, but that could be read by these exploits'. The company said it has now fixed the underlying issues that enabled these cheats, and removed 'bad actors' from the active Dota playerbase. Watch on YouTube Newscast: How do you feel about Switch in 2023, following the Nintendo Direct?