Security News > 2022 > January > BotenaGo Botnet Code Leaked to GitHub, Impacting Millions of Devices

The BotenaGo botnet source code has been leaked to GitHub.

Uploading of the source code to GitHub "Can potentially lead to a significant rise of new malware variants as malware authors will be able to use the source code and adapt it to their objectives," Alien Labs security researcher Ofer Caspi wrote.

Alien Labs only recently discovered that the BotenaGo source code had been uploaded to the wildly popular GitHub software development platform a month prior to when researchers discovered the malware to begin with: Specifically, it was uploaded on Oct. 16, 2021.

Alien Labs called the malware source code "Simple yet efficient," able to carry out malware attacks with a grand total of a mere 2,891 lines of code.

The source code leaked to GitHub and depicted below features a "Supported" list of vendors and software used by BotenaGo to target its exploits at a slew of routers and IoT devices.

History tells the tale: the Mirai botnet rocketed to prominence after its source code had similarly been uploaded to a hacking community forum in 2016 and later uploaded to GitHub along with details about its infrastructure, configuration and how to build it.

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