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MedusaHTTP DDoS Slithers Back into the Spotlight

TJ Nelson on December 18, 2017.

Executive Summary MedusaHTTP is a HTTP-based DDoS botnet written in .NET, that surfaced in early 2017. MedusaHTTP is based off of MedusaIRC which leveraged IRC for its command and control communications instead of HTTP. MedusaIRC botnet has been advertised on various underground hacker marketplaces since […]

Jeff Edwards on October 5, 2011.

Arbor’s ASERT team has a paper at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference in Barcelona, Spain. The paper, by Arbor’s Jeff Edwards and Jose Nazario, is titled A survey of Chinese DDoS malware and is based on some of the detailed analysis we did as part […]

Curt Wilson on August 17, 2011.

Background In late July 2011, a specific piece of malware came to our attention. Analysis revealed that this particular piece of malware was launching DDoS attacks and we have direct evidence of DDoS attack on two Russian websites. One of these was a gaming website, […]

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Tag: malware

MedusaHTTP DDoS Slithers Back into the Spotlight

Arbor Networks at Virus Bulletin 2011

Dirt Jumper Caught in the Act