{"id":240460,"date":"2026-05-06T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:55:12","slug":"new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4167854\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks.html\">New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4167854\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4167854\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 07:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This turns the infected Linux systems into interconnected relay points capable of maintaining communication even when portions of the infrastructure are disrupted. This is another factor contributing to the difficulty of complete elimination.<\/p>\n<p>The command and control (C2) operates a versatile command pack. \u201cIn total, QLNX registers 58 distinct commands, covering a broad range of post-compromise functionality, including file system manipulation, network tunneling, credential harvesting, and rootkit management,\u201d the researchers said, detailing a complete list of registered commands and their corresponding handlers.<\/p>\n<p>For network communication, QLNX supports raw TCP, HTTPS, and HTTP. \u201cAll three transports carry the same underlying binary command protocol,\u201d Trend Micro wrote. \u201cBoth the TCP and HTTPS channels are secured using TLS, ensuring that command and data exchanges are encrypted during network communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4167854\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4167854\/new-malware-turns-linux-systems-into-p2p-attack-networks.html Publish Date: 2026-05-06 07:41:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4167854-0-29396100-1778067681-shutterstock_680076340.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,32],"class_list":["post-240460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240462,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240460\/revisions\/240462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}