{"id":222362,"date":"2025-09-24T03:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/shadowv2-botnet-exploits-misconfigured-aws-docker-containers-for-ddos-for-hire-service"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:37:52","slug":"shadowv2-botnet-exploits-misconfigured-aws-docker-containers-for-ddos-for-hire-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/shadowv2-botnet-exploits-misconfigured-aws-docker-containers-for-ddos-for-hire-service","title":{"rendered":"ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shadowv2-botnet-exploits-misconfigured-aws-docker-containers-for-ddos-for-hire-service2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>ShadowV2<\/strong> botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers to deploy a Go-based malware that turns infected systems into attack nodes and co-opt them into a larger DDoS botnet. The cybersecurity company said it detected the malware targeting its honeypots on June 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the center of this campaign is a Python-based command-and-control (C2) framework hosted on GitHub Codespaces,\u201d security researcher Nathaniel Bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darktrace.com\/blog\/shadowv2-an-emerging-ddos-for-hire-botnet\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest. The ShadowV2 botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers to deploy a Go-based malware that turns infected systems into attack nodes and [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222362","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=222362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}