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Major gaming platforms hit by disruptions: unprecedented DDoS suspected  Cybernews Steam is back online after outage  Engadget Steam is recovering from intermittent downtime on Tuesday  PC Gamer Steam, Lumen experience widespread outages impacting thousands of users  Yahoo Steam down for thousands of users worldwide  PiunikaWeb Source link

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay …

New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP  The Hacker News Source link