New RustDuck Botnet Targets IoT Devices and Servers With Weak Passwords and RCE Exploits

A sophisticated new botnet family dubbed RustDuck emerged in early 2026, leveraging a two-stage Loader and Core architecture to compromise IoT devices, routers, and enterprise servers through brute-force credential attacks and remote code execution vulnerabilities. RustDuck employs a multi-pronged infection strategy combining weak password attacks against Telnet and SSH services with exploitation of known RCE […]

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