{"id":242736,"date":"2026-08-15T01:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:13:45","slug":"mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Panda Adds Signed Windows Rootkit to CoolClient Backdoor for Stealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HoneyMyte deploys an updated CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows rootkit that hides malicious processes, files, registry objects, and C2 data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HoneyMyte deploys an updated CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows rootkit that hides malicious processes, files, registry objects, and C2 data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242736","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=242736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}