Researchers at Akamai Technologies Inc. today said they have discovered a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that has been actively breaching Linux servers. Dubbed “Panchan,” the botnet and SSH worm ...

Panchan is going after telecom and education providers using novel and unique methods to thwart defenses and escalate privileges. Akamai Security Research announced on Wednesday it has uncovered a new ...

A new peer-to-peer botnet named Panchan appeared in the wild around March 2022, targeting Linux servers in the education sector to mine cryptocurrency. Panchan is empowered with SSH worm functions ...

Linux users need to be watch out of a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that spreads between networks using stolen SSH keys and runs its crypto-mining malware in a device's memory. The Panchan P2P botnet ...

Newborn as it is, the Kraken botnet has already spread like wildfire, thanks to the malware’s author tinkering away over the past few months, adding more infostealers and backdoors. There’s a new, ...

A recently uncovered dedicated denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire botnet highlights how attackers are repurposing cloud-native development tools to build infrastructure that looks and behaves like ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...