Bondnet
- First seen
- 2017-01-01 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- organization
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:15:55
Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications financial-services
Context
Bondnet is a threat actor that deploys backdoors and cryptocurrency miners. They use high-performance bots as C2 servers and configure reverse RDP environments on compromised systems. Bondnet has infected over 15,000 Windows server machines worldwide, primarily targeting Windows Server 2008 R2 systems. The botnet is used for mining cryptocurrencies like Monero, ByteCoin, RieCoin, and ZCash, potentially earning the operator thousands of dollars per day.
Reports & references
- asec.ahnlab.com — 66662 (report)
- akamai.com — The Bondnet Army (report)
- thedfirreport.com — Select Xmrig From Sqlserver (report)