{"id":10075,"date":"2026-09-28T14:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/carbonato-botnet-compromises-docker-hosts-to-deploy-telegram-controlled-hermes-ai-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:11:46","slug":"carbonato-botnet-compromises-docker-hosts-to-deploy-telegram-controlled-hermes-ai-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/carbonato-botnet-compromises-docker-hosts-to-deploy-telegram-controlled-hermes-ai-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that&#8217;s targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file,&#8221; ThreatDown said. &#8220;The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that&#8217;s targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file,&#8221; ThreatDown said. &#8220;The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that&#8217;s targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. &#8220;The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file,&#8221; ThreatDown said. &#8220;The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/carbonato-botnet-compromises-docker-hosts-to-deploy-telegram-controlled-hermes-ai-agent\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}