DDosia Project: Volunteers Carrying out NoName(057)16’s Dirty Work

A few months ago, we published a blog post about a pro-Russian hacker group called NoName057(16). The group carried out DDoS attacks using a botnet consisting of devices infected with malware called Bobik. NoName057(16)’s success rate using the Bobik botnet to attack selected targets was around 40%. However, the success rate rapidly dropped when the botnet was taken down – as was reported in the group’s Telegram channel early September. 

When we analyzed the Bobik malware in the summer, …

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