New HTTPBot botnet launches 200-plus 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.

“Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, continuously leveraging infected devices to launch external attacks,” NSFOCUS said in a report published this week. “By employing highly simulated HTTP Flood attacks and dynamic feature obfuscation techniques, it circumvents traditional rule-based detection mechanisms.”

HTTPBot, first spotted in the wild in August 2024, gets its name from the use of HTTP protocols to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. Written in Golang, it’s something of an anomaly given its targeting of Windows systems.

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