botnet
U.S. Authorities Seize DanaBot Malware Operation, Indict 16
U.S. authorities seized the infrastructure of the DanaBot malware and charged 16 people in an action that is part of the larger Operation Endgame, a multinational initiative launched last year to disrupt ...
NSFOCUS WAF Selected in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection
Santa Clara, Calif. May 14, 2025 – Recently, Gartner released the “Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection”[1], and NSFOCUS was selected as a Representative Vendor with its innovative WAAP solution ...
High Risk Warning for Windows Ecosystem: New Botnet Family HTTPBot is Expanding
Overview In April 2025, the Global Threat Hunting system of NSFOCUS Fuying Lab detected a significant increase in the activity of a new Botnet Trojan developed based on Go language. Given that ...
Alert: XorBot Comes Back with Enhanced Tactics
I. Overview According to the monitoring by NSFOCUS, since the beginning of 2024, a new-type botnet family with a high level of anti-tracking awareness—XorBot—has been continuously updating its versions and introducing new ...
Over 300,000! GorillaBot: The New King of DDoS Attacks
Overview In September 2024, NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System monitored a new botnet family calling itself Gorilla Botnet entering an unusually active state. Between September 4 and September 27, it issued over ...
15-Year-Old Ebury Botnet Compromised 400,000 Linux Servers
Bad news: The operators behind the credential stealer and OpenSSH backdoor continue to evolve the malware's propagation tactics and targets ...
TheMoon Botnet Facilitates Faceless To Exploit EoL Devices
In a digital landscape fraught with threats, vigilance is paramount. The cybercriminals are exploiting End-of-Life devices to perpetrate their malicious activities. Recently, Black Lotus Labs, the formidable threat intelligence arm of Lumen ...
FritzFrog Botnet Strikes Back Exploiting Log4Shell Vulnerability
A new variant of the sophisticated botnet “FritzFrog” has emerged, leveraging the Log4Shell vulnerability for propagation. Despite more than two years passing since the Log4j flaw was discovered, attackers continue to exploit ...
‘Total Bollocks’ — No, Your Toothbrush isn’t DDoS’ing
PR FAIL: Were 3 million toothbrushes hacked into a botnet? Or does a Fortinet spokeschild have egg on his face? ...
NSFOCUS Reveals New Botnet Family RDDoS
1. Introduction of the New Botnet RDDoS In early November 2023, NSFOCUS’s Global Threat Hunting System detected that an unknown elf file was spreading widely, which aroused our vigilance. After further analysis, ...
