Stiv Kupchik is a Security Researcher Team Lead at Akamai. His research projects revolve around OS internals, vulnerability research, and malware analysis. He has presented his research at conferences such as Black Hat, Hexacon, and 44CON. In addition to being a cybersecurity professional, Stiv also has a BSc in physics. Akamai security researchers discovered Panchan, a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that emerged in March 2022 and has been actively breaching Linux servers since. Executive summary \r\n \r\n Akamai security researchers discovered Panchan , a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that emerged in March 2022 and has been actively breaching Linux servers since. \r\n \r\n Panchan is written in Golang, and utilizes its built-in concurrency features to maximize spreadability and execute malware modules. \r\n \r\n In addition to the “basic” SSH dictionary attack that is commonplace in most worms, this malware also harvests SSH keys to perform lateral movement .…