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Source: SC Magazine - Posted by Alex
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A new family of bots is responsible for nearly 200 distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting websites in China, the United States, South Korea and Germany, according to researchers at security firm Arbor Networks
The bot family, which has been dubbed "YoyoDDoS" after the hostname of one of its initial command-and-control (C&C) servers, was first detected in March. To date, Arbor Networks has processed more than 70 variants from the family and identified at least 34 C&C servers, all but three of which are located in China.
DDoS attacks use large numbers of compromised PCs to flood a targeted website with traffic with the goal of knocking it offline. Out of the 180 YoyoDDoS attacks that have been identified, 126 of them targeted IP addresses in China, while 32 targeted victims in the United States, nine in South Korea, and five in Germany.
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