HinataBot focuses on DDoS attack. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

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This week our guests are, Larry Cashdollar, Chad Seaman and Allen West from Akamai Technologies, and they are discussing their research on "Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat." The team discovered a new Go-based, DDoS-focused botnet. They found it was named after the popular anime show "Naruto," they are calling it "HinataBot" In the research it says "HinataBot was seen being distributed during the first three months of 2023 and is actively being updated by the authors/operators." Akamai was able to get a deep look into the malware works by using a combination of reverse engineering the malware and imitating the command and control (C2) server. The research can be found here: Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.1	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.7	Thanks for joining us. Yeah, so we were looking through our honeypot logs, specifically for results for a certain vulnerability in Yarn-Hadup.
1:56.0	And Larry was talking about how GoBinaries are so much bigger than all the other ones that we've seen and so I started
2:05.7	filtering by megabytes and then we found some pretty interesting samples.
2:10.4	That's Alan West. The research we're discussing today comes from
2:15.1	Akamai and is titled Uncovering Henatobot, a deep dive into a go-based threat.
2:20.8	Joining us are Larry Cashdollar, Chad Seaman and Alan West.
2:27.0	Well, let's go through it together here. I mean, what exactly is going on under the
2:37.9	hood here? What are we talking about? Chad, you want to take us through this? We haven't
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