Blog Security FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets Ophir leads the security research team in Akamai's Enterprise Security Group. Executive Summary \r\n \r\n Guardicore has discovered FritzFrog, a sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that has been actively breaching SSH servers since January 2020. \r\n \r\n Golang-based malware: FritzFrog executes a worm malware that is written in Golang, and is modular, multithreaded, and fileless, leaving no trace on the infected machine’s disk. \r\n \r\n Actively targeting government, education, finance, and more: FritzFrog has attempted to brute force and propagate to tens of millions of IP addresses of government offices, educational institutions, medical centers, banks, and telecom companies. Among those, it has successfully breached more than 500 servers, infecting well-known universities in the United States and Europe, and a railway company.…