{"id":11981,"date":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:03:44","slug":"new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy<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 flagged a new variant\u00a0ofmalware\u00a0called Chaosthat&#8217;scapable of\u00a0hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet&#8217;s targeting infrastructure.<br \/>\n&#8220;Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,&#8221;\u00a0Darktrace said in a new\u00a0report.<\/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\/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant\u00a0ofmalware\u00a0called Chaosthat&#8217;scapable of\u00a0hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet&#8217;s targeting infrastructure. &#8220;Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,&#8221;\u00a0Darktrace said in a new\u00a0report. Go to TheHackersNews<\/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-11981","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\/11981"}],"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=11981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}