{"id":4459,"date":"2025-05-28T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-devices-to-steal-ssh-credentials-and-mine-crypto\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:12:14","slug":"new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-devices-to-steal-ssh-credentials-and-mine-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-devices-to-steal-ssh-credentials-and-mine-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bEmbedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot.<br \/>\nWritten in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware to the infected hosts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server\u00a0Embedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot.<br \/>\nWritten in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware to the infected hosts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bEmbedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot. Written in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware to the infected hosts. &#8220;Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-devices-to-steal-ssh-credentials-and-mine-crypto\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4460,"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\/4459"}],"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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}