In the second half of 2021, XorDDoS was the most prevalent botnet among organizations in Latin America, with an attack detection rate of 3100 per organization. XorDDoS is a trojan malware that enables to launch of large-scale DDoS attacks targeting Linux-based operating systems. Second-ranked BadRabbit had a detection rate of 2300 in Latin American organizations. The latter is a ransomware attack that locks victims' access to their servers, devices, or files.
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