{"id":1316,"date":"2024-07-05T05:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/new-golang-based-zergeca-botnet-capable-of-powerful-ddos-attacks\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T05:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:10:33","slug":"new-golang-based-zergeca-botnet-capable-of-powerful-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/new-golang-based-zergeca-botnet-capable-of-powerful-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Golang-Based Zergeca Botnet Capable of Powerful DDoS Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that&#8217;s capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.<br \/>\nWritten in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named &#8220;ootheca&#8221; present in the command-and-control (C2) servers (&#8220;ootheca[.]pw&#8221; and &#8220;ootheca[.]top&#8221;).<br \/>\n&#8220;Functionally, Zergeca is not just a typical DDoS botnet; besides supporting six\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that&#8217;s capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.<br \/>\nWritten in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named &#8220;ootheca&#8221; present in the command-and-control (C2) servers (&#8220;ootheca[.]pw&#8221; and &#8220;ootheca[.]top&#8221;).<br \/>\n&#8220;Functionally, Zergeca is not just a typical DDoS botnet; besides supporting six\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that&#8217;s capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named &#8220;ootheca&#8221; present in the command-and-control (C2) servers (&#8220;ootheca[.]pw&#8221; and &#8220;ootheca[.]top&#8221;). &#8220;Functionally, Zergeca is not just a typical DDoS botnet; besides supporting six\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/new-golang-based-zergeca-botnet-capable-of-powerful-ddos-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Golang-Based Zergeca Botnet Capable of Powerful DDoS Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}