{"id":7717,"date":"2026-04-08T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:11:56","slug":"masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that&#8217;s designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)\u00a0attacks.<br \/>\nCalled Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It&#8217;s capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures.<br \/>\n&#8220;Built for\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that&#8217;s designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)\u00a0attacks.<br \/>\nCalled Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It&#8217;s capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures.<br \/>\n&#8220;Built for\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that&#8217;s designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)\u00a0attacks. Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It&#8217;s capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures. &#8220;Built for\u00a0Cybersecurity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7718,"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\/7717"}],"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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}