TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albei…
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