A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Trojan family is being used to attack blogs and forums criticizing the Vietnamese Communist Party. The “Vecebot” Trojan family comprises more than 15,000 bots, most of them in Vietnam. DDoS attacks began just before the scheduled Oct. 19 release from prison of a well-known Vietnamese blogger who criticized the Communist government. Politically motivated cyberattacks are becoming more commonplace and sophisticated, SecureWorks says. There is some evidence that these current attacks are being perpetrated by a pro-communist hacking group.”]