{"id":19948,"date":"2026-04-16T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:52:00","slug":"newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits-czech-workers-using-randomized-c2-traffic-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that&#8217;s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet\u00a0dubbed PowMix since at least December\u00a02025.<br \/>\n&#8220;PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,&#8221; Cisco Talos<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that&#8217;s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet\u00a0dubbed PowMix since at least December\u00a02025. &#8220;PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,&#8221; Cisco TalosRead More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19949,"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-19948","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\/19948","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=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}