Carbonato Botnet Puts an AI Agent on Hacked Docker Hosts

Reported by Dark Reading (Alexander Culafi)

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Sep 2026, 22:23 CEST

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The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.

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