The bot connects to a command-and-control (C2) server, authenticating with a hard-coded password. Cado Security Labs monitored the botnet activity, witnessing DDoS attacks using UDP- and SSL-based ...

The HULK DDoS attack tool is designed to confuse server defenses by generating unique requests ... “Enforcing Python’s engines, I wrote a script that generates some nicely crafted unique Http ...

Proof-of-concept code to run massive DDoS attacks using unsecured Memcached servers has been published online this week, along with a ready-made list of over 17,000 IP addresses belonging to ...

Code hidden in the downloaded software surreptitiously infects the device with malware that eventually installs malicious.py, a python script that provides the main logic for the botnet.