Threat Intelligence

Campaign briefs and adversary profiles derived from the cowrAI distributed honeypot fleet — 36 nodes across 7 providers.

Fleet active · 36 nodes SSH/Telnet + 9 alt-protocol lures LLM-mode engagement
Active Campaigns

FLYLEGIT / FROSTY / Next.js RCE — June 2026 IoT Surge & Web Campaign

Mirai Web RCE

Three concurrent campaigns: Flylegit 14-arch IoT worm (t.me/flylegit) with active honeypot evasion and 0/72 VT detections; Frosty Mirai targeting Realtek with live C2 confirmed across 14 sandbox detonations; and a Next.js Server Actions RSC prototype-pollution RCE scanner.

2.7M commands (7d)
0/72 VT detections
14 Flylegit arches
5 C2/distrib nodes
2026-06-23 published

FROSTY — Mirai-Lineage IoT Botnet

Mirai

Opportunistic IoT DDoS botnet exploiting two 2014–2017 SOAP RCE CVEs across Realtek and Huawei CPE devices. Campaign observed across all 36 fleet nodes over 31 days. Self-replication args confirm the Mirai distribution-on-compromise lineage.

33,431 events
41/62 VT detections
10 triage score
3 C2/distrib nodes
31d window

KAIZEN / KWARI — Dual-Named Mirai Botnet

Mirai

Active IoT botnet exploiting D-Link DSL-2750B HNAP command injection and Realtek miniigd UPnP SOAP RCE (CVE-2014-8361) across 9 architectures. Dual binary naming convention (kaizen.* / kwari.*) suggests split infrastructure or evolving rebranding. C2 confirmed at 185.234.100.154:2310 via sandbox detonation.

44/62 VT detections
10 triage score
13 samples
4 distrib nodes
9 arches targeted

OHSHIT — Multi-Arch Mirai Variant

Mirai

Mirai-lineage botnet with the widest architecture coverage observed on fleet (11+ arches including SPARC, SH4/Renesas, m68k, PowerPC). SSH brute-force entry with a four-fallback downloader (wget → busybox wget → curl → busybox curl) and dual-location persistence via /dev/shm and /var. Distribution path /bachekuni/ unique; no prior public reporting.

4,334 events
38/63 VT detections
10 triage score
34d active
11+ arches targeted

About These Reports

Each brief is derived from live honeypot data collected by the cowrAI fleet — 36 cowrie nodes running SSH, Telnet, and alt-protocol lures (soaplure, httplure, adbhoney, and others). All lure-captured payloads are automatically submitted to VirusTotal and tria.ge; confirmed samples are detonated in an isolated WARP-egress sandbox for behavioral analysis.

Reports include: IOC tables, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, Suricata detection rules, raw exploit payload captures, and C2 infrastructure profiling. Distribution frequency: as-observed (one brief per distinct campaign or threat actor).