{"id":7620,"date":"2025-10-13T07:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/new-rust-based-malware-chaosbot-hijacks-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:05:03","slug":"new-rust-based-malware-chaosbot-hijacks-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/new-rust-based-malware-chaosbot-hijacks-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rust-Based Malware &#8220;ChaosBot&#8221; Uses Discord Channels to Control Victims&#8217; PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>New Rust-Based Malware &#8220;ChaosBot&#8221; Uses Discord Channels to Control Victims&#8217; PCs<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Rust-based backdoor called ChaosBot that can allow operators to conduct reconnaissance and execute arbitrary commands on compromised hosts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Threat actors leveraged compromised credentials that mapped to both Cisco VPN and an over-privileged Active Directory account named, &#8216;serviceaccount,'&#8221; eSentire said in a technical report published<\/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\/10\/new-rust-based-malware-chaosbot-hijacks.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Rust-Based Malware &#8220;ChaosBot&#8221; Uses Discord Channels to Control Victims&#8217; PCs Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Rust-based backdoor called ChaosBot that can allow operators to conduct reconnaissance and execute arbitrary commands on compromised hosts. &#8220;Threat actors leveraged compromised credentials that mapped to both Cisco VPN and an over-privileged Active Directory account named, [&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-7620","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\/7620"}],"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=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}