{"id":9119,"date":"2026-07-28T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/tengu-botnet-reboots-compromised-linux-devices-when-defenders-kill-its-process\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:15:04","slug":"tengu-botnet-reboots-compromised-linux-devices-when-defenders-kill-its-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/tengu-botnet-reboots-compromised-linux-devices-when-defenders-kill-its-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device&#8217;s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens, Tengu&#8217;s other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force.<\/p>\n<p>Tengu supports 25 distributed denial-of-service (\u00a0A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device&#8217;s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens, Tengu&#8217;s other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force.<\/p>\n<p>Tengu supports 25 distributed denial-of-service (\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device&#8217;s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu&#8217;s other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force. Tengu supports 25 distributed&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/tengu-botnet-reboots-compromised-linux-devices-when-defenders-kill-its-process\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9120,"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\/9119"}],"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=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}