{"id":19852,"date":"2026-04-08T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:30:00","slug":"masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire-service-targeting-global-iot-devices-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that&#8217;s designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)\u00a0attacks.<br \/>\nCalled Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It&#8217;s capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures.<br \/>\n&#8220;Built for<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/masjesu-botnet-emerges-as-ddos-for-hire.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that&#8217;s designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)\u00a0attacks. Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It&#8217;s capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures. &#8220;Built forRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}