{"id":11980,"date":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","slug":"masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity 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<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices Cybersecurity 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}