New Kairos DDoS Botnet Hijacks Linux Devices to Overwhelm Servers With Thousands of TCP Connections

Nozomi Networks Labs has documented Kairos, a previously undocumented Go-based DDoS bot for Linux. It turns compromised Linux devices into attack nodes that exhaust a victim’s connection capacity with thousands of idle TCP sessions. Kairos DDoS botnet Honeypot telemetry captured three Kairos builds. They differ only in the hard-coded C2 address and the Go compiler […]

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