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CARBONATO Is the First Botnet Where the Command-and-Control Engine Is an AI Agent — and It Has Been Running Since October 2024

September 27, 2026 1 min read 4 views

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CARBONATO is a Docker-based botnet that utilizes an autonomous AI agent as its command-and-control (C2) engine rather than a static server. Discovered by ThreatDown researchers in August 2026, this is the first documented instance where the C2 infrastructure

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