botnet
US Officials Claim to Have Gained Control of the RapperBot
Overview Recently, US officials claimed to have successfully gained control of RapperBot, effectively curbing this powerful source of DDoS attacks. The operation pinpointed the key figure behind the botnet, Ethan Foltz. According ...
Hpingbot: A New Botnet Family Based on Pastebin Payload Delivery Chain and Hping3 DDoS Module
Overview In June 2025, NSFOCUS Fuying Lab Global Threat Hunting System detected that a new botnet family developed based on Go language was spreading on a large scale, and continued to iterate ...
The Hacktivist Cyber Attacks in the Iran-Israel Conflict
Overview of the current cyber attacks in the Iran-Israel conflict The geopolitical confrontation between Iran and Israel has a long history. In recent years, as the competition between the two countries in ...
LapDogs Campaign Shows Chinese Groups’ Growing Use of ORB Networks
A cyberespionage campaign called LapDogs by SecurityScorecard illustrates the growing use of ORB networks by China-nexus threat groups, which use botnet-like techniques to stay undetected while collecting information and establishing persistence in ...
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 ...
