{"id":14350,"date":"2026-07-16T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/google-gemini-cli-abused-as-a-hacking-agent-malware-botnet-operator\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:04:33","slug":"google-gemini-cli-abused-as-a-hacking-agent-malware-botnet-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/google-gemini-cli-abused-as-a-hacking-agent-malware-botnet-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A Russian-speaking threat actor known as &#8220;bandcampro&#8221; used Google&#8217;s open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/google-gemini-cli-abused-as-a-hacking-agent-malware-botnet-operator\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator A Russian-speaking threat actor known as &#8220;bandcampro&#8221; used Google&#8217;s open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-14350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350"}],"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=14350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}