{"id":12178,"date":"2026-04-17T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:03:31","slug":"newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic<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 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<\/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\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic Cybersecurity 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 [&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-12178","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\/12178"}],"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=12178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}