{"id":7801,"date":"2026-04-16T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:11:58","slug":"newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that&#8217;s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet\u00a0dubbed PowMix since at least December\u00a02025.<br \/>\n&#8220;PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,&#8221; Cisco Talos\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that&#8217;s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet\u00a0dubbed PowMix since at least December\u00a02025.<br \/>\n&#8220;PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,&#8221; Cisco Talos\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that&#8217;s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet\u00a0dubbed PowMix since at least December\u00a02025. &#8220;PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,&#8221; Cisco Talos\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7802,"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\/7801"}],"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=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}