Botnet

Hackers Turn GitHub Actions Into a Global Botnet for Attacking Web Hosting Servers

Hackers are abusing compromised GitHub repositories and GitHub Actions workflows to build a de facto global botnet that scans and…

4 months ago

New NadMesh Botnet Uses 20+ RCE Vectors to Hijack AI and MCP Infrastructure

NadMesh is a new, industrial‑grade Go‑based botnet that weaponizes more than 20 RCE vectors to hijack AI and MCP infrastructure…

4 months ago

Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Gemini CLI to Deploy C2 Botnet in Six Minutes

A Russian-speaking threat actor tracked as “bandcampro” used Google Gemini CLI as an end-to-end operational assistant to migrate a command-and-control…

4 months ago

AI-as-a-Service Botnet Routes Malicious Workloads Across Compromised Windows and Linux Hosts

The underground advertisement for the so-called Mycelium Framework reads like another feature‑packed botnet sales pitch: cross‑platform payloads, encrypted C2, persistence,…

4 months ago

New RustDuck Botnet Targets IoT Devices and Servers With Weak Passwords and RCE Exploits

A sophisticated new botnet family dubbed RustDuck emerged in early 2026, leveraging a two-stage Loader and Core architecture to compromise…

4 months ago

AryStinger Botnet Uses Intranet Scanning and Traffic Tunneling to Hide Attacker Activity

A newly analyzed botnet family, AryStinger, weaponizes long‑neglected routers and NAS appliances to build a stealthy reconnaissance and relay infrastructure…

5 months ago

GRU-Linked APT28 Uses MooBot Botnet and Compromised EdgeRouters for Cyber Operations

A notable operational pivot by the GRU-linked intrusion set APT28 (aka Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm) that combines…

5 months ago

China-Linked JDY Botnet Hijacks 1,500+ IoT Devices for Rapid Exploits

A significant resurgence of the JDY botnet, a covert reconnaissance network tied to China-nexus threat activity. Once a component of…

5 months ago

P2PInfect Botnet Targets Kubernetes via Exposed Redis

A persistent P2Pinfect botnet campaign targeting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters through exposed Redis instances, highlighting how a single cloud…

6 months ago

Void Botnet Leverages Ethereum for Resilient C2

A newly identified botnet, named Void, is leveraging Ethereum smart contracts to build a resilient, hard-to-disrupt command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, marking…

6 months ago