Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent

Cy­ber­se­cu­rity re­sear­chers have dis­clo­sed de­tails of a new bot­net malwa­re ca­lled Car­bo­na­to that's tar­ge­ting ex­po­sed Doc­ker dae­mons to de­ploy an open-sour­ce ar­ti­fi­cial in­te­lli­gen­ce (AI) agent fra­me­work ca­lled Her­mes Agent. "The im­plant ins­talls the fra­me­work un­chan­ged, then overw­ri­tes its SOUL.md per­so­na file," Th­reat­Down said. "The 39-line prompt di­rects it to execu­te tasks re­cei­ved th­rough…