New Botnet named Zerobot Exploiting Multiple Vulnerabilities

Threat Level

Vulnerability Report

For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here

Summary

A new botnet named ‘Zerobot’ has two variants, both are written in Go programming language, the first variant discovered on 18 Nov 2022, and within a short time on 24 Nov 2022 second variant was developed, and is more sophisticated has number of advanced features, which includes self propagation, self replication and attacks for different protocols.

Note: The term “Zerobot” in this advisory refers to a specific type of malware, and is not related with the organization zerobot.ai.