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  • Windows Botnet x47.c Offers AI API Draining, 18 Attack Methods
  • Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent
  • Researchers Found a Botnet That Uses an AI Agent to Operate Inside Compromised Servers

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infosecurity-magazine.com /1 month ago

Windows Botnet x47.c Offers AI API Draining, 18 Attack Methods

Qrator found a Windows botnet advertised with AI API draining, credential theft and SOCKS5 proxying

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thehackernews.com /3 weeks ago

Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (...

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cybersecuritynews.com /4 weeks ago

Researchers Found a Botnet That Uses an AI Agent to Operate Inside Compromised Servers

CARBONATO is a botnet that turns Docker servers into footholds for attackers. It places an AI agent inside compromised systems, letting operators send tasks through Telegram and re...

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thehackernews.com /1 month ago

3BB Attacker Used MeshCentral Backdoor for Root Access, Targeted Subscriber Credentials

An attacker was operating inside the network of 3BB, one of Thailand's largest broadband providers, and maintained remote control of internal machines using a legitimate management...

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thehackernews.com /1 month ago

Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operati...

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thehackernews.com /10 hours ago

Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet

Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it...

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thehackernews.com /1 month ago

BraZetsu Malware Turns Compromised Windows Hosts Into Criminal Marketplace Inventory

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated Python-based Windows malware framework called BraZetsu that fuels an underground marketplace commercializing acc...

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gbhackers.com /3 weeks ago

PaperPhone Cluster Shows How One Bot Operator Can Look Like Thousands of Mobile Users

A large-scale scraping cluster dubbed PaperPhone, exposing how one operator can manufacture the appearance of tens of thousands of legitimate mobile users across dozens of countrie...

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runet.news /4 weeks ago

ИИ-ботнет с функциями червя захватывает Docker-хосты

Ботнет Carbonato, который оставался незамеченным почти два года, не только создает контейнеры с доступом к хосту, но и устанавливает в них фреймворк Hermes. Вредоносное ПО под назв...

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infosecurity-magazine.com /1 month ago

International Operation Disrupts Sality P2P Botnet

US-led action sinkholes machines caught up in Sality botnet

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bleepingcomputer.com /1 month ago

Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown

International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botne...

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techcentral.ie /1 month ago

International effort shuts down long-running Sality botnet

Law-enforcement agencies in the US and Eastern Europe along with cyber security firm CrowdStrike have taken down a 23-year-old Russia-based botnet. Authorities from the US Justice...

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bleepingcomputer.com /4 weeks ago

New Carbonato malware uses AI agents to hijack exposed Docker hosts

A new botnet malware called Carbonato is targeting insecure hosts running Docker daemons to install the Hermes Agent AI framework and take control. [...]

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infosecurity-magazine.com /3 weeks ago

RatHat's Evolving C2 Panel Points to Malware-as-a-Service Model

RatHat's C2 panel now builds malware and ranks victims with AI across nearly 100 deployments

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techcrunch.com /1 month ago

US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate

The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable," as the domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code and were...

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gbhackers.com /1 month ago

Cybercriminals Abandon Domains but Keep the Hosting Networks Behind Malware Campaigns

Cybercriminals are rapidly rotating lure domains, cloud storage buckets and command-and-control channels, but one infrastructure component is proving far harder to replace: the bul...

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thehackernews.com /2 weeks ago

Realtek Jungle SDK Exploit Attempts Deliver Cling Botnet With STUN-Based C2

Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a now-patched critical security flaw impacting the Realtek Jungle software development kit (SDK) to deploy a botnet malware c...

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gbhackers.com /1 month ago

Casbaneiro Banking Trojan Uses Distributed C2 Servers to Evade Detection and Target Bank Users

A Casbaneiro banking Trojan campaign targeting users across Latin America, using phishing lures, geofenced delivery infrastructure, and distributed command-and-control (C2) servers...

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gbhackers.com /1 month ago

New Windows Malware Built to Survive Takedowns With a Hidden P2P Command Network

AvisLoader, a newly observed Windows malware loader designed to maintain operator access even when conventional command-and-control infrastructure is disrupted. Instead of relying...

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gbhackers.com /3 weeks ago

Cling Malware Masquerades as Google STUN Traffic to Control Compromised IoT Devices

A newly identified IoT botnet, Cling, disguises its command-and-control communications as legitimate STUN traffic, including packets that appear to originate from Google’s public S...

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gbhackers.com /1 month ago

Tengu Mirai-Style Linux Bot Hides as Kernel Worker to Launch DDoS and Proxy Attacks

A newly analyzed Linux malware sample, dubbed Tengu, combines Mirai-style botnet tradecraft with broad persistence, DDoS, SSH probing, and proxy capabilities. The stripped 32-bit E...

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gbhackers.com /4 days ago

Hackers Turn Low-Cost Android Phones Into Hidden Proxy Botnets Through Preinstalled Malware

Midnight Mimosa, a widespread Android malware campaign, is turning inexpensive smartphones into advertising fraud engines and potential residential proxy nodes by embedding malicio...

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cybersecuritynews.com /1 month ago

New Linux Bot Hides as Kernel Process and Launches DDoS Attacks

A new Linux bot called Tengu is built to stay hidden and turn compromised systems into tools for disruption. The 32-bit malware poses as a routine kernel worker, persists across se...

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gbhackers.com /1 month ago

New IoT Malware Uses Public Linux Exploits to Gain Root and Launch DDoS Attacks

A newly observed IoT malware family dubbed KATARU targets internet-exposed devices through Telnet credential brute-forcing, then attempts to gain root privileges with publicly avai...

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