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 to the investigation, Foltz has been developing and operating RapperBot since 2021, with his residence in Eugene, Oregon,...
Tag: Botnet
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 versions and develop rapidly. We named it “hpingbot†and put it under intensive monitoring. hpingbot is a cross-platform...
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 the military, nuclear energy and diplomatic fields has been escalating. On June 13, 2025, the IDF launched a...
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. We believe this recognition reflects the technical accumulation and practical capabilities of NSFOCUS WAF in the field of...
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 many of its built-in DDoS attack methods are HTTP-based, Fuying Lab named it HTTPBot. The HTTPBot Botnet family...
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 features, undergoing significant changes. This botnet family first emerged in November 2023 and was exclusively disclosed by the...
