{"id":9507,"date":"2026-08-21T21:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/14-trojanized-npm-packages-drop-redc2-4-0-linux-backdoor-with-ai-assisted-c2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:13:22","slug":"14-trojanized-npm-packages-drop-redc2-4-0-linux-backdoor-with-ai-assisted-c2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/14-trojanized-npm-packages-drop-redc2-4-0-linux-backdoor-with-ai-assisted-c2\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the module loads, it\u202flocates\u202fthe bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,&#8221; TrendAI, Trend Micro&#8217;s\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the module loads, it\u202flocates\u202fthe bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,&#8221; TrendAI, Trend Micro&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. &#8220;When the module loads, it\u202flocates\u202fthe bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,&#8221; TrendAI, Trend Micro&#8217;s\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/14-trojanized-npm-packages-drop-redc2-4-0-linux-backdoor-with-ai-assisted-c2\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9508,"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\/9507"}],"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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}