Security News > 2023 > May > Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry
A new botnet called Dark Frost has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against the gaming industry.
"The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has expanded to encompass hundreds of compromised devices," Akamai security researcher Allen West said in a new technical analysis shared with The Hacker News.
As of February 2023, the botnet comprises 414 machines running various instruction set architectures such as ARMv4, x86, MIPSEL, MIPS, and ARM7.
Dark Frost represents the latest iteration of a botnet that appears to have been stitched together by stealing source code from various botnet malware strains such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and QBot.
Akamai, which reverse-engineered the botnet after flagging it on February 28, 2023, pegged its attack potential at approximately 629.28 Gbps through a UDP flood attack.
"Although not the most advanced or mind-bending adversary, the Dark Frost botnet has still managed to accumulate hundreds of compromised devices to do its bidding."
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