Minecraft, with over 500 million registered users and 166 million monthly players, faces significant risks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, threatening server functionality, player experience, and the gameβs reputation. Despite the prevalence of DDoS attacks on the game, the majority of incidents go unreported, leaving a gap in awareness and protection. This article explains
More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer calledΒ Luna Token GrabberΒ on systems belonging to Roblox developers.
The ongoing campaign, first detected on August 1 by ReversingLabs, employs modules that masquerade as the legitimate packageΒ noblox.js, an API
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a novel rootkit signed by Microsoft that's engineered to communicate with an actor-controlled attack infrastructure.
Trend Micro has attributed the activity cluster to the same actor that was previously identified as behind theΒ FiveSys rootkit, which came to light in October 2021.
"This malicious actor originates from China and their main victims are the
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