"Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry"

Dark Frost is a new botnet launching Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry. According to a new technical analysis by Akamai security researcher Allen West, the Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has grown to include hundreds of compromised devices. The botnet's targets include gaming companies, game server hosting providers, online streamers, and other gaming community members with whom the threat actor has had direct interactions. As of February 2023, the botnet consists of 414 machines with instruction set architectures, such as ARMv4, x86, MIPSEL, MIPS, and ARM7. Dark Frost appears to have been assembled using source code stolen from multiple botnet malware strains, including Mirai, Gafgyt, and QBot. After flagging the botnet on February 28, 2023, Akamai reverse-engineered it and estimated its attack potential to be approximately 629.28 Gbps via a UDP flood attack. Researchers believe the threat actor has been active since at least May 2022. This article continues to discuss findings and observations regarding the Dark Frost botnet. 

THN reports "Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry"