{"id":147242,"date":"2022-09-29T23:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-warn-of-new-go-based-malware-targeting-windows-and-linux-systems"},"modified":"2022-09-29T23:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:24:47","slug":"researchers-warn-of-new-go-based-malware-targeting-windows-and-linux-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-warn-of-new-go-based-malware-targeting-windows-and-linux-systems","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Warn of New Go-based Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-warn-of-new-go-based-malware-targeting-windows-and-linux-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new, multi-functional Go-based malware dubbed <strong>Chaos<\/strong> has been rapidly growing in volume in recent months to ensnare a wide range of Windows, Linux, small office\/home office (SOHO) routers, and enterprise servers into its botnet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host environment, run remote shell commands, load additional modules, automatically propagate through stealing and brute-forcing SSH private keys, as well as launch DDoS attacks,\u201d researchers from Lumen\u2019s Black Lotus Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lumen.com\/chaos-is-a-go-based-swiss-army-knife-of-malware\/?utm_source=press+release&utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a write-up shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the bots are located in Europe, specifically Italy, with other infections reported in China and the U.S., collectively representing \u201chundreds of unique IP addresses\u201d over a one-month time period from mid-June through mid-July 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, multi-functional Go-based malware dubbed Chaos has been rapidly growing in volume in recent months to ensnare a wide range of Windows, Linux, small office\/home office (SOHO) routers, and enterprise servers into its botnet. \u201cChaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host environment, run remote shell commands, load additional modules, automatically propagate through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}