AimTrap: Visual Aimbot Defense

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Abstract

Visual aimbots have emerged as a serious cheating threat in firstperson shooter (FPS) games, as they evade existing anti-cheat defenses by operating only on rendered frames rather than game memory. However, existing defenses fail to provide an end-to-end solution: post-hoc behavior detectors cannot protect match integrity in real time and are increasingly fragile against human-mimicking aimbots, while proactive runtime defenses often lack accountability, incur substantial overhead, or require intrusive system integration. We present AimTrap, the first end-to-end defense against visual aimbots that combines real-time protection with post-game detection using two adversarial texture mechanisms. Adversarial Camouflage Textures (ACT) hide real players from aimbots, while Adversarial Honeypot Textures (AHT) lure aimbots into locking onto fake targets, yielding strong evidence of cheating.

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