Ghosting: A term used to describe the practice of ceasing all communication and contact with a partner, friend or bot. The operators of the Hoaxcalls Botnet, also known as the XTC IRC Botnet, have been developing this new family of botnets
In April, both Radware and Palo Alto Networks published reports about a new botnet family called ‘Hoaxcalls’. Both reports detailed the development of a new, fast-moving, and relatively noisy campaign. While IoT botnet variants are very common since the publication of the Mirai source code, the samples covered