Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry

Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry

May 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananGaming / Server Security A new botnet called Dark Frost has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry. "The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has expanded...
How the Mirai botnet continues to threaten business networks

How the Mirai botnet continues to threaten business networks

One of the most powerful pieces of malware began with the efforts of three American teens who were motivated by playing “Minecraft” in 2014. Called Mirai, it would go on to crash Germany’s largest internet provider, knock Dyn’s Domain Name...

Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update: Q1-2021

After a quiet(ish) finish to 2020 in Spamhaus’ botnet world, the primary quarter of this yr kicked off in type. The main information surrounded the takedown of the Emotet botnet in January. Nonetheless, as one malware departs, others arrive on...

New JenX IoT DDoS Botnet Offered Part of Gaming Server Rental Scheme

The operators of a gaming server rental enterprise are believed to have constructed an IoT DDoS botnet, which they're now providing as half of the server rental scheme. The prime and fairly apparent clue that ties this new IoT botnet...

Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison – Naked Security

The coder who created the huge Satori botnet of enslaved gadgets and a handful of different botnets can be spending 13 months behind bars, the US Attorney’s Office of Alaska (*13*) on Friday. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 22, from Vancouver, Wash.,...