Compromised AsyncAPI npm Packages Deliver Multi-Stage Botnet Malware

Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. The affected packages are listed below - @asyncapi/[email protected]...

148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet

A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the...

New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware

AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting , turns that habit into an attack: work out the fake names an AI...

MAL-2026-6754 Malicious code in yt-api-dlp (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d4710e1aa4fe025aaed51f4958f3b514a6cb950b40069f424c7a5d9a2f85591c Package name yt-api-dlp is a single-token insertion away from the widely-used yt-dlp package, and the tarball contains a near-verbatim copy of the...

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut , a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum TechnologiesNASDAQ: ALAR. The action comes roughly two weeks after...

RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS

A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin's XLab have tracked it since February 2026, and say the...

LNTest: A Testbed for Evaluating Bitcoin Lightning Network-Based Botnets

Bitcoin's Lightning Network LN can be exploited as a covert, low-cost command-and-control C&C channel for botnets, as demonstrated by the LNBot and D-LNBot designs. However, both remain proof-of-concept prototypes evaluated only through simulation, leaving key questions about real-world topology...

China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY , a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO small office and home office and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performanc...

Silent Ransom Group Uses Fast Flux Botnet to Hide Law Firm Leak Sites

Cybersecurity firm Resecurity reports Silent Ransom Group is using a fast flux botnet to hide data leak sites while targeting law firms with theft and vishing...

CVE-2024-45257

A Command Injection issue in the payload build page in BYOB Build Your Own Botnet 2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server via a crafted build parameter. This occurs in freeze in core/generators.py...

MalTree: Tracing Malware Evolution from Embeddings at Scale

Malware detection remains largely reactive: machine learning models trained on known samples degrade as threats evolve. Understanding evolutionary relationships among malware families can inform proactive defense, but traditional reverse engineering can take months to years to uncover such lineag...

MAL-2026-5151 Malicious code in parsimonius (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 a5ab85a46a37da928774b1885049b71d40d675c54683b13711f4e371d932394a Clone of a legitimate package with an added RAT running through a Telegram bot. It can e.g. exfiltrate env variables and execute remote commands. The malicious...

Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices

Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center NCSC, consisted of at lea...

RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical 2018 Vulnerability to Hijack ASUS Routers

Cybersecurity firm VulnCheck reveals hackers are using a critical 2018 vulnerability to bypass authentication and hack over a million ASUS routers...

Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler aka Dort, 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the developmen...

Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf , a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks over the past six months...

Botnet Detection on CTU-13 Using Lightweight Machine Learning Models

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service DDoS. While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they are computationally intensive and often lack...

Malicious Package

Overview chalk-tempalte is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

Malicious Package

Overview color-style-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

Malicious Package

Overview axois-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organizatio...