{"id":4263,"date":"2025-05-29T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:04:51","slug":"new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Embedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot.<br \/>\nWritten in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware to the infected hosts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server<\/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\/2025\/05\/new-pumabot-botnet-targets-linux-iot.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto Embedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot. Written in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware [&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-4263","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\/4263"}],"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=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}