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 ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

Dobbins said the consensus in the DDoS mitigation industry is that the people behind Aisuru are actually combining the ...

This dangerous new botnet is shooting off attacks across the world faster than can be tracked - here's what we know about RondoDox

Security researchers are warning about RondoDox, a noisy new botnet targeting dozens of vulnerabilities in more than 30 ...
SecurityWeek

RondoDox Botnet Takes ‘Exploit Shotgun’ Approach

The botnet packs over 50 exploits targeting unpatched routers, DVRs, NVRs, CCTV systems, servers, and other network devices.
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 ...
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?
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.
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 ...