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China-linked JDY botnet expands to 1,500 devices for industrial reconnaissance

  • IT News--4sysops.com
  • published date: 2026-06-10 16:56:15 UTC

The JDY botnet has expanded to over 1,500 compromised devices to conduct large-scale reconnaissance and service fingerprinting. This network primarily targets small office and home office routers, firewalls, and IoT devices from various manufacturers. It func…

The botnet has evolved from a sub-component of the dismantled KV-botnet into an independent and highly diverse scanning ecosystem. Operators utilize compromised hardware in the United States and Euro… [+708 chars]