{"id":256975,"date":"2026-05-27T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/coordinated-operation-takes-down-glassworm-botnet\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:15:13","slug":"coordinated-operation-takes-down-glassworm-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/coordinated-operation-takes-down-glassworm-botnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinated operation takes down Glassworm botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/takedown-glassworm-botnet-crowdstrike-Google-Shadowserver\/821227\/\">Coordinated operation takes down Glassworm botnet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/takedown-glassworm-botnet-crowdstrike-Google-Shadowserver\/821227\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/takedown-glassworm-botnet-crowdstrike-Google-Shadowserver\/821227\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 11:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Glassworm botnet, a global operation targeting software developers through the open-source supply chain, was disrupted Wednesday in a coordinated takedown led by CrowdStrike.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>All four of the botnet\u2019s command-and-control channels were targeted simultaneously, effectively disconnecting them from their infected computers and leaving them unable to deliver malicious payloads, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>according to a blog post\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>from the cybersecurity company.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Since early 2025, Glassworm\u2019s operators have been targeting developers, who have access to source code repositories, continuous integration\/continuous delivery pipelines, package registries and cloud platforms, CrowdStrike said.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The botnet had a full range of malicious capabilities, including credential harvesting and data theft. It included a <span><span>Node.js<\/span><\/span> remote access tool called GlasswormRAT.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>CrowdStrike worked in a coordinated effort with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation to go after Glassworm, which the company said was likely based in Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>More than 300 GitHub repositories were poisoned during the Glassworm campaign, which harvested credentials from prior attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Malicious code was introduced using compromised npm and Python packages. In addition, Trojanized VS Code extensions were published to the Open VSX marketplace.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Researchers said the botnet\u2019s C2 architecture was built to maintain resilience and withstand traditional disruption attempts.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/takedown-glassworm-botnet-crowdstrike-Google-Shadowserver\/821227\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coordinated operation takes down Glassworm botnet https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/takedown-glassworm-botnet-crowdstrike-Google-Shadowserver\/821227\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-27 11:49:00 Source Domain: www.cybersecuritydive.com The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/xHBqFwiAAsGWvuhkNmDdcXoTV4OWjUHK_KE4gvZqrvU\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9JTUdfMjIxNS5KUEc=.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256975"}],"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=256975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256977,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256975\/revisions\/256977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}