{"id":232189,"date":"2026-02-27T05:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/aeternum-c2-botnet-stores-encrypted-commands-on-polygon-blockchain-to-evade-takedown"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:24:37","slug":"aeternum-c2-botnet-stores-encrypted-commands-on-polygon-blockchain-to-evade-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/aeternum-c2-botnet-stores-encrypted-commands-on-polygon-blockchain-to-evade-takedown","title":{"rendered":"Aeternum C2 Botnet Stores Encrypted Commands on Polygon Blockchain to Evade Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aeternum-c2-botnet-stores-encrypted-commands-on-polygon-blockchain-to-evade-takedown2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers detail Aeternum C2 storing botnet commands on Polygon blockchain, while DSLRoot operates 300 residential proxy devices across U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers detail Aeternum C2 storing botnet commands on Polygon blockchain, while DSLRoot operates 300 residential proxy devices across U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232189","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=232189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}