Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies

At a little before 11 pm ET on October 6, Riot reported "game disconnection issues" on its League of Legends and Valorant ...
The Register on MSN

RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device

DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for cover A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at ...
Windows Report

Massive DDoS Attack Knocks Out Steam, Riot, and Other Services

A record-breaking 29 Tbps DDoS attack took down Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Riot Games. Learn what happened and how services recovered.
GosuGamers

Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Riot Games and Epic outage sparks concerns of coordinated DDoS attack

Silksong phenomenon on 7 Oct, but was it coincidence that Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Riot, and Epic all went down at the same time?
PCMag

Double the Power: New DDoS From 'Aisuru' Botnet Easily Shatters Record

The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The ...
Threat Post

BotenaGo Botnet Code Leaked to GitHub, Impacting Millions of Devices

The malware had already put millions of routers and IoT devices at risk, and now any noob can have at it. The BotenaGo botnet source code has been leaked to GitHub, putting millions of routers and ...
Gamepressure

Steam, Riot Games, and others may have been hit with a DDoS attack earlier today that broke records

Outages appear to have affected many gaming services and titles simultaneously, sparking rumors of a coordinated DDoS attack.
Threat Post

Keksec Cybergang Debuts Simps Botnet for Gaming DDoS

The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...
Bleeping Computer

New Eleven11bot botnet infects 86,000 devices for DDoS attacks

A new botnet malware named 'Eleven11bot' has infected over 86,000 IoT devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs), to conduct DDoS attacks. The botnet, which is loosely ...
Nextgov

What Feds Can Do to Guard Against DDoS Attacks and the Botnet Threat

Distributed denial of service attacks are becoming more powerful, but the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security have urged agencies to lead by example in combating them. In October 2016, the ...
Bleeping Computer

Beastmode botnet boosts DDoS power with new router exploits

A Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet tracked as Beastmode (aka B3astmode) has updated its list of exploits to include several new ones, three of them targeting various models of ...
ZDNet

DDoS botnet coder gets 13 months in prison

A 22-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for creating and operating multiple DDoS botnets made up of home routers and other networking and Internet of Things ...