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F5 Labs

How Bots Ruined the PlayStation 5 Launch for Millions of Gamers

2023-03-18 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

3 predictions
T1539Steal Web Session Cookie
58%
"and capture http transaction, and perform a diff with bot transaction at this point when nothing has worked, the reseller manually tests the site to ensure that the site is actually responsive and not offline. a successful manual test tells the reseller that the site is working a…"
T1584.005Botnet
45%
"this is an extremely lucrative business, which is why the reseller bot problem is unlikely to go away and will, in all probability, worsen into the future. conclusion this case study of ps5 reseller bot activity is based on a large ecommerce company that had put in place robust a…"
T1583.005Botnet
45%
"this is an extremely lucrative business, which is why the reseller bot problem is unlikely to go away and will, in all probability, worsen into the future. conclusion this case study of ps5 reseller bot activity is based on a large ecommerce company that had put in place robust a…"

Summary

A deep dive into a sustained attack by reseller bots aimed at snatching every available PlayStation 5 during the console's big launch at a large US retailer.