{"id":4026,"date":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/new-httpbot-botnet-launches-200-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","slug":"new-httpbot-botnet-launches-200-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/new-httpbot-botnet-launches-200-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New HTTPBot Botnet Launches 200+ Precision DDoS Attacks on Gaming and Tech Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New HTTPBot Botnet Launches 200+ Precision DDoS Attacks on Gaming and Tech Sectors<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new botnet malware called HTTPBot that has been used to primarily single out the gaming industry, as well as technology companies and educational institutions in China.<br \/>\n&#8220;Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, continuously leveraging infected devices to launch external attacks,&#8221; NSFOCUS said in a report published this week. &#8220;By<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/new-httpbot-botnet-launches-200.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New HTTPBot Botnet Launches 200+ Precision DDoS Attacks on Gaming and Tech Sectors Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new botnet malware called HTTPBot that has been used to primarily single out the gaming industry, as well as technology companies and educational institutions in China. &#8220;Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}