CVE-2022-22947

A Go-based botnet named NadMesh, discovered in early July 2026, actively targets exposed AI and cloud services to harvest cloud credentials, Kubernetes tokens, and model access. The malware prioritizes exploitation of MCP (Model Context Protocol) services, Docker APIs, Jenkins consoles, and Redis instances, with a focus on credential theft rather than host compromise. The operator uses self-propagating scanning infrastructure, persistence mechanisms, and obfuscation to evade detection, while targeting specific ports associated with AI tools like ComfyUI, Ollama, Gradio, and n8n. Researchers observed real-time exploitation traffic, though success rates for MCP exploitation remain low compared to other vectors.

TuxBot v3 Evolution is a modular IoT botnet framework leveraging LLM-assisted development, capable of DDoS attacks, device infection via Telnet brute-forcing, and persistence across multiple architectures. The malware uses encrypted C2 communication with fallback mechanisms including DGA, P2P gossip, and IRC, though several components are non-functional due to development bugs. The operator is linked to the Keksec/Kaitori ecosystem, sharing infrastructure with known IoT threats, and has active C2 servers in Singapore and a dropper in Iceland.