New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto
New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto
28 May 2025
Embedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot.
Written in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware to the infected hosts.
"Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server