{"id":20298,"date":"2026-05-15T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into-modular-p2p-botnet-for-persistent-access-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:10:25","slug":"turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into-modular-p2p-botnet-for-persistent-access-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into-modular-p2p-botnet-for-persistent-access-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as<\/p>\n<p>    Turla<\/p>\n<p>  has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that&#8217;s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts.<\/p>\n<p>  Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service (FSB)<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/turla-turns-kazuar-backdoor-into.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that&#8217;s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service (FSB)Read More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20299,"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-20298","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\/20298","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=20298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}