{"id":12914,"date":"2026-05-16T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into-html\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:04:19","slug":"turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as<\/p>\n<p>    Turla<\/p>\n<p>  has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that&#8217;s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts.<\/p>\n<p>  Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service (FSB)<\/p><\/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\/05\/turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that&#8217;s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be [&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-12914","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\/12914"}],"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=12914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}