Some information on the Banwave from cheaters forums

Lurked a bit on the cheaters forums, reading what they are discussing.

1. Valve targeted VBE (Visible by Enemy) function (it gave you a visual indication of when you are in enemy vision), which was used by everyone who had cheats on.
2. This function was in the game from the start (11 years).
3. This is the function that Knights allegedly used in Div1 DPC CN.
4. VBE is likely gonna get you banned very fast, so it's probably not usable anymore.
5. Cheats are back online, working, not getting people banned.
6. Client side particles maphack is still functional.
7. A lot of cheaters had more than 1 account banned but also a lot didn't get all of their accounts banned, even thou they were cheating on all of them.
8. Main concern for booster and cheaters is HWID detection (this is when Valve can detect that it's the same hardware that was used to play on other accounts and ban all of them), which they have ways to circumvent.
9. Main concern for cheat sellers is their reputation among users for being undetectable, not getting users banned.
10. Some people get only matchmaking ban, some get game ban, some get VAC.
11. Cheat creators lurk on reddit, because they also have no idea what Valve are doing.