{"id":228548,"date":"2026-01-08T01:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-gobruteforcer-attack-wave-targets-crypto-blockchain-projects"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:15:02","slug":"new-gobruteforcer-attack-wave-targets-crypto-blockchain-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-gobruteforcer-attack-wave-targets-crypto-blockchain-projects","title":{"rendered":"New GoBruteforcer attack wave targets crypto, blockchain projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-gobruteforcer-attack-wave-targets-crypto-blockchain-projects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new wave of GoBruteforcer botnet malware attacks is targeting databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects on exposed servers believed to be configured using AI-generated examples.<\/p>\n<p>GoBrutforcer is also known as GoBrut. It is a Golang-based botnet that typically targets exposed FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin services.<\/p>\n<p>The malware often relies on compromised Linux servers to scan random public IPs and carry out brute-force login attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave of GoBruteforcer botnet malware attacks is targeting databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects on exposed servers believed to be configured using AI-generated examples. GoBrutforcer is also known as GoBrut. It is a Golang-based botnet that typically targets exposed FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin services. The malware often relies on compromised Linux servers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1761,34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228548","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=228548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}