TuxBot v3: Inside an IoT Botnet Framework With LLM-Assisted Development

Researchers discovered TuxBot v3 Evolution, a modular IoT botnet (malware that infects internet-connected devices and controls them remotely) framework where the developers used an LLM (large language model, an AI trained to understand and generate text) to help write the malware code. Although the LLM generated working botnet code, it included safety warnings that the developers left in place, and the code contained several bugs that manual review could have caught, suggesting more polished versions may already exist in the wild.