Hide and Seek
Aliases: HNS
- First seen
- 2018-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- botnet, worm
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:25:46
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications
Context
Hide and Seek, also known as HNS, is a sophisticated IoT malware operating as a decentralized peer-to-peer botnet. It is capable of communicating with other compromised devices, expanding its network, and executing various commands.
Related threat objects
- Hide and Seek (infrastructure)
Reports & references
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Elf.Hideandseek (report)
- threatlabs.avast.com — Botnet (report)
- labs.bitdefender.com — Hide And Seek Iot Botnet Resurfaces With New Tricks Persistence (report)
- fortinet.com — Searching For The Reuse Of Mirai Code Hide N Seek Bot (report)
- bleepingcomputer.com — Hide And Seek Becomes First Iot Botnet Capable Of Surviving Device Reboots (report)
- bleepingcomputer.com — New Hns Iot Botnet Has Already Amassed 14K Bots (report)
- blog.netlab.360.com — Hns Botnet Recent Activities En (report)
- bleepingcomputer.com — Hns Evolves From Iot To Cross Platform Botnet (report)
- Palo Alto Unit 42 — Hide N Seek Botnet Updates Arsenal With Exploits Against Nexus Repository Manager Thinkphp (report)
- blog.avast.com — Hide N Seek Botnet Continues (report)
- labs.bitdefender.com — New Hide N Seek Iot Botnet Using Custom Built Peer To Peer Communication Spotted In The Wild (report)