CrowdStrike, in collaboration with Google and Shadowserver, successfully dismantled the Glassworm botnet, a highly resilient threat targeting software developers. The threat actors utilized trojanized IDE extensions and malicious package dependencies to deploy GlasswormRAT, leveraging a complex C2 infrastructure spanning the Solana blockchain, BitTorrent DHT, and Google Calendar to maintain persistent access to developer environments.
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Disrupting Glassworm: Inside CrowdStrike’s Takedown of a Developer-Targeting Botnet