DemonBot

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2025
DDoS peaks hit new highs: Cloudflare mitigated massive 7.3 Tbps assault

Cloudflare blocked 7.3M DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, down from 20.5M in Q1, while hyper-volumetric attacks surged with 6,500+ blocked, averaging 71 daily. Cloudflare mitigated 7.3M DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, down from 20.5M in Q1, 13.5M of which stemmed from an 18-day Q1 campaign. Hyper-volumetric attacks surged, with over 6,500 blocked, averaging 71 per […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2018
Recently discovered DemonBot Botnet targets Hadoop servers

Security experts from Radware have spotted a new botnet dubbed DemonBot that it targeting Hadoop clusters to launch DDoS attacks against third parties. Operators behind the DemonBot botnet target an unauthenticated remote command execution in Hadoop YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator). DemonBot bot only infects central servers, at the time of the report experts found over 70 active exploit servers […]