Botnet

New HTTPBot Botnet Launches 200+ Precision DDoS Attacks on Gaming and Tech Sectors – Go Health Pro

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New HTTPBot Botnet Launches 200+ Precision DDoS Attacks on Gaming and Tech Sectors – Go Health Pro

May 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananUnited States Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new botnet malware called HTTPBot that has been used to primarily single out the gaming industry, as well as technology companies and educational institutions in China. “Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, continuously leveraging infected devices to launch external attacks,” … Read more

Trend Micro Warns Home Routers Targeted For Iot Botnet Use – Go Health Pro

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Trend Micro Warns Home Routers Targeted For Iot Botnet Use – Go Health Pro

Trend Micro last week released its latest research that warned of a major new wave of attacks attempting to compromise home routers for use in IoT botnets. With the dawn of the internet of things (IoT), botnet developers have found a new domain to conquer, but there they must compete with one another to grow … Read more

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet – Go Health Pro

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Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet – Go Health Pro

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the attacks have leveraged the security flaw since June 2024. Additional details about the shortcomings have been withheld to prevent further … Read more

IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet – Go Health Pro

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IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet – Go Health Pro

IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed password-guessing attack: “Any threat actor using the CovertNetwork-1658 infrastructure could conduct password spraying campaigns at … Read more

New Cryptojacking Attack Targets Docker API to Create Malicious Swarm Botnet – Go Health Pro

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New Cryptojacking Attack Targets Docker API to Create Malicious Swarm Botnet – Go Health Pro

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances to join a malicious Docker Swarm controlled by the threat actor. This enabled the attackers to “use Docker Swarm’s orchestration features for command-and-control (C2) purposes,” Datadog researchers Matt Muir and Andy Giron said in an … Read more