{"id":6640,"date":"2026-01-12T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-crypto-project-databases-by-exploiting-weak-credentials\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:11:31","slug":"gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-crypto-project-databases-by-exploiting-weak-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-crypto-project-databases-by-exploiting-weak-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that&#8217;s capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers.<br \/>\n&#8220;The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment examples that propagate common\u00a0A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that&#8217;s capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers.<br \/>\n&#8220;The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment examples that propagate common\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that&#8217;s capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. &#8220;The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-crypto-project-databases-by-exploiting-weak-credentials\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6641,"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\/6640"}],"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=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}