RapperBot

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2022
New RapperBot Campaign targets game servers with DDoS attacks

Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered new samples of the RapperBot malware that are being used to build a DDoS botnet to target game servers. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs discovered the previously undetected RapperBot IoT […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
New Linux botnet RapperBot brute-forces SSH servers

RapperBot is a new botnet employed in attacks since mid-June 2022 that targets Linux SSH servers with brute-force attacks. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new IoT botnet tracked as RapperBot which is active since mid-June 2022. The bot borrows a large portion of its code from the original Mirai botnet, but unlike other […]