CARBONATO: First AI‑Agent‑Driven Botnet Hijacki...
https://forkast.news/carbonato-is-the-first-botnet-where-the-command-and-control-engine-is-an-ai-agent-and-it-has-been-running-since-october-2024
https://flagthis.com/tldr/7998
##AIBotnet ##DockerSecurity ##LLMAbuse ##C2Evolution ##CredentialTheft
https://forkast.news/carbonato-is-the-first-botnet-where-the-command-and-control-engine-is-an-ai-agent-and-it-has-been-running-since-october-2024
https://flagthis.com/tldr/7998
##AIBotnet ##DockerSecurity ##LLMAbuse ##C2Evolution ##CredentialTheft
CARBONATO Is the First Botnet Where the Command-and-Control Engine Is an AI Agent — and It Has Been Running Since October 2024
ThreatDown discovered a Docker botnet that installs an unmodified open-source agent framework, overwrites its persona file, and uses stolen AI API keys to fund its own LLM gateway. Traditional C2 detection tools cannot see it.
forkast.news
September 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM