Hpingbot is a botnet malware family used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The provided content describes it as a new botnet and indicates that it targets SSH. No additional high-confidence details are provided in the content regarding its malware capabilities beyond DDoS activity, specific infection chain, targeted industries or geographies, associated threat actor, supported platforms, or indicators of compromise.
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2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Botnet/malware targeting SSH to enable DDoS activity (per summary).
Go-based botnet infecting IoT/Linux/Windows devices to conduct DDoS attacks using the hping3 utility.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.