Security News > 2023 > March > New ‘HinataBot’ botnet could launch massive 3.3 Tbps DDoS attacks
A new malware botnet was discovered targeting Realtek SDK, Huawei routers, and Hadoop YARN servers to recruit devices into DDoS swarm with the potential for massive attacks.
Akamai's analysts created a C2 of their own and interacted with simulated infections to stage HinataBot for DDoS attacks to observe the malware in action and infer its attack capabilities.
Even with only two attack modes, the botnet can potentially perform very powerful distributed denial of service attacks.
Akamai benchmarked the botnet in 10-second attacks for both HTTP and UDP, and in the HTTP attack, the malware generated 20,430 requests for a total size of 3.4 MB. The UDP flood generated 6,733 packages totaling 421 MB of data.
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