Cheating is prevalent in the gaming industry and is causing
several types of uproars. Counter-Strike is a popular
franchise which has had up to peaks of 850 thousand
players at once playing. Professional events such as ESL One
Cologne 2015 had 1.3 million concurrent viewers. Video
games are a huge industry, sadly, integrity of the players is
lacking. Professional players have been found to be using
cheats at events, and cheaters in casual matches are
expected to be found regularly. Current anti-cheat systems
may use signature-based approaches and even heuristics,
but none of them have explicitly stated to be using data mining techniques. Although signature methods may catch
a lot of not technically adept cheaters, the ones we need
worry about are the ones using metamorphic or
polymorphic cheats that stay undetectable to these
systems. To detect these kinds of cheats, another method
needs to be put in place. Data mining techniques used for
detecting zero-day malware as well as player…

Techniques are described for automatically reducing cheating in an interactive execution environment, such as to perform automated operations to detect and stop use of cheat software in an online game