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Has it been confirmed that there were no existing cheat/hack tools installed on the PC already? I'm possibly missing the smoking gun where it's definitely a remote code exploit and not just the player having cheat tools installed on their PC and accidentally activating them, then pretending to be very alarmed at what's going on.

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Two players on two different teams had cheats appear simultaneously, it's quite unlikely they would both accidentally reveal their cheats at the same time.

The overlay that appeared with the "cheats" on it was full off inside jokes too and didn't look at all serious. One of the check boxes was labelled "Vote Putin".

There hasn't been any confirmation about how exactly it happened. It seems to me that the most likely scenario was these players got phished prior to the tournament and were already infected with malware.

I agree, however source engine does have a history of some RCEs. The first one that was phished could have been used to phish the other as well.

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