{"id":237857,"date":"2026-05-28T03:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/glassworm-botnet-disrupted-after-resilient-c2-infrastructure-takedown"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:42:02","slug":"glassworm-botnet-disrupted-after-resilient-c2-infrastructure-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/glassworm-botnet-disrupted-after-resilient-c2-infrastructure-takedown","title":{"rendered":"Glassworm botnet disrupted after resilient C2 infrastructure takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glassworm-botnet-disrupted-after-resilient-c2-infrastructure-takedown2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Glassworm botnet targeting developers in software supply-chain attacks has been disrupted after researchers took down its resilient command-and-control infrastructure relying on Solana blockchain transactions and the BitTorrent DHT network.<\/p>\n<p>In a coordinated operation conducted yesterday, CrowdStrike, Google, and The Shadowserver Foundation cut off the botnet operators\u2019 access to four distinct command-and-control (C2) channels designed to resist conventional disruption efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Glassworm campaigns have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/self-spreading-glassworm-malware-hits-openvsx-vs-code-registries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ongoing since October 2025<\/a> and initially targeted developers with malicious OpenVSX and Microsoft VS Code extensions that stole cryptocurrency wallets and developer credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glassworm botnet targeting developers in software supply-chain attacks has been disrupted after researchers took down its resilient command-and-control infrastructure relying on Solana blockchain transactions and the BitTorrent DHT network. In a coordinated operation conducted yesterday, CrowdStrike, Google, and The Shadowserver Foundation cut off the botnet operators\u2019 access to four distinct command-and-control (C2) channels designed [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237857","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=237857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}