{"id":19854,"date":"2026-04-08T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured-cloud-deployments-adds-socks-proxy-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:51:00","slug":"new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured-cloud-deployments-adds-socks-proxy-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured-cloud-deployments-adds-socks-proxy-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant\u00a0ofmalware\u00a0called Chaosthat&#8217;scapable of\u00a0hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet&#8217;s targeting infrastructure.<br \/>\n&#8220;Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,&#8221;\u00a0Darktrace said in a new\u00a0report.<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant\u00a0ofmalware\u00a0called Chaosthat&#8217;scapable of\u00a0hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet&#8217;s targeting infrastructure. &#8220;Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,&#8221;\u00a0Darktrace said in a new\u00a0report.Read More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19855,"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-19854","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\/19854","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=19854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}