The Botnet That’s Still Small but Engineering Like It Plans to Grow

RustDuck: The Botnet That’s Still Small but Engineering Like It Plans to Grow Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2026 RustDuck is a small, evolving DDoS botnet migrating to Rust. It uses advanced encryption, anti-analysis evasion, and exploits known IoT flaws. Since February 2026, researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab have been tracking a new malware family, called RustDuck, […]