Background According to the monitoring data from NSFOCUS Fuying Lab, since the outbreak of domestic conflict in Iran in January 2026 and the subsequent escalation of tensions over the nuclear issue between the U.S. and Iran, Iran has been continuously subjected to DDoS attacks. The attack methods have shown diverse...
Tag: DDoS
Record-Breaking Cloud Incident Brings Outage Through the Internet
November 18, 2025 – Cloudflare Global Outage (not a DDoS) Time: Started ~11:20 UTC, major issues until ~14:30 UTC, full recovery by ~17:06 UTC. Scope: Affected a huge portion of the internet — thousands of sites and services behind Cloudflare (X/Twitter, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Spotify, Claude.ai, Discord, Crunchyroll, etc.). Symptoms: 500 Internal...
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...
NSFOCUS Releases 2024 Global DDoS Landscape Report
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 9, 2025 – NSFOCUS, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, announced the release of its annual report, the 2024 Global DDoS Landscape Report. The full report is packed with in-depth analysis and insights that can help organizations better understand the DDoS threat environment and formulate more...
India-Pakistan Conflicts Escalating: Military Operations and DDoS Attacks Making Targeted Strikes
Background On May 7, 2025, NSFOCUS Fuying Lab released "Two-Front Confrontation: Parallel Narratives of India-Pakistan Reality Friction and Cyber DDoS Attacks", which analyzed the DDoS attack activities in the early stage of India-Pakistan friction. This article is the second in this series, mainly analyzing the DDoS attack activities against India...
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...
