MAL-2026-13861 Malicious code in @years18/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-q (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector ab6ad174527240f5b3cf6eac2f078ff9a95cc3599926aca824d541c650f18a66 @years18/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-q ships as a stub n8n community node nodes/PwnNode.node.js exports a trivial 'Helper Utils' description but its...

Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things IoT botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The new version, tracked as Kimwolf v7, wa...

TeamPCP Linked To Redis Attacks Dating Back To 2020 And Later Supply Chain Campaign

A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. "The connection is...

Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process

A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu's other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its...

Dysphoria IoT Botnet Adds Blockchain C2 and Victim Relays After JackSkid Disruption

Dysphoria , an Internet of Things IoT botnet line tracked by CNCERT and XLab, has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure. The researchers say the design makes the botnet harder to disrupt. CNCERT,...

Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro " outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google's open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence AI and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200 Gemini CLI session logs between March 19 and April 21, 2026,...

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens

A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the image generators, local model runners, an...

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things IoT botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model LLM, albeit with not so successful results. "While the AI complied with...

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]...

public-research — Updated!

Nokia Deepfield ERT — public research Threat research from the Nokia Deepfield Emergency Response Team ERT, focused on DDoS botnets and related infrastructure. Each directory covers a botnet family with a brief summary and machine-readable indicators of compromise IoCs. This repo consolidates pri...

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...

Six Minutes to Compromise: How ‘Patriot Bait’ Actor Used AI to Build and Deploy a C&C Botnet

TrendAI™ Research analyzed over 200 Gemini CLI session logs showing how a Russian-speaking threat actor used AI to run a live botnet, finishing a full C&C migration in six minutes while doing just 11% of the work himself...

A week in security (July 6 – July 12)

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Malicious code in sankislayer (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 74a2d321c0a35b52bc8ba63b8c13dd8e883d63419ed8aa304b648d3599f98ad8 Obfuscated code provides a Telegram bot to join a spamming botnet. Centrally controlled bots can be used to spam other Telegram channels via looped posting,...

MAL-2026-10119 Malicious code in sankislayer (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 74a2d321c0a35b52bc8ba63b8c13dd8e883d63419ed8aa304b648d3599f98ad8 Obfuscated code provides a Telegram bot to join a spamming botnet. Centrally controlled bots can be used to spam other Telegram channels via looped posting,...

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-2026-6976 Malicious code in py-slugify (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 67a9d1e498fcf994bbfd8e10bde000990fe4579a88ba5b20848beabac1ae44cc During import, this malicious copy of a legitimate package downloads an encrypted data disguise as an image. It contains an archive with a next-stage script th...

Malicious code in rarcore (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 69082900a353e728be770b24c10b27f0f2b7cb9f5ec15179833976447fc6c424 During import, this malicious copy of a legitimate package downloads an encrypted data disguise as an image. It contains an archive with a next-stage script th...

MAL-2026-6977 Malicious code in rarcore (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 69082900a353e728be770b24c10b27f0f2b7cb9f5ec15179833976447fc6c424 During import, this malicious copy of a legitimate package downloads an encrypted data disguise as an image. It contains an archive with a next-stage script th...

Beware of Agentic Botnets: Scalable Untargeted Promptware Attacks Via Universal and Transferable Adversarial HalluSquatting

The growing adoption of agentic LLM applications has introduced a new threat previously named as promptware. While prior work has established that adversaries can exploit direct channels to LLM applications to apply promptware under weak threat models, many applications do not provide any direct...