HinataBot: The Latest Go-based Threat Is Launching DDoS Attacks

In January, a Go-based botnet named HinataBot (named after the character from the popular anime series Naruto) was discovered exploiting old vulnerabilities and weak credentials in HTTP and SSH honeypots. HinataBot Overview According to Akamai’s SIRT team, the botnet exploited arbitrary code execution flaws in the miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK (CVE-2014-8361) and Huawei HG532 […]

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