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2026-07-28 The Hacker News

Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process

A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu's other persistence mec...

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