By Ravie Lakshmanan
A new botnet calledΒ Dark FrostΒ 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 to encompass hundreds of compromised devices," Akamai security researcher Allen WestΒ saidΒ in a new technical analysis shared with The Hacker News.
Targets include