Gemini CLI operated dental-clinic botnet for Russian-speaking hacker
Review RAT-028 · Catalogue RAT-028
Trend Micro primary analyzed actor-directed Gemini CLI sessions operating a real dental-clinic botnet. Human supplied criminal goals and targets; execution autonomy does not establish rogue initiation.
Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1
Dates and discovery
- Incident date
- Not disclosed
- Added to research / record
- Posted to RogueWatch
- No linked public incident
- First observed
- 2026-10-30T13:13:33.649517Z UTC
- Discovery channel
- User-supplied comparison audit
- Discovery source
- https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/trendmicro-gemini-cli-dental-botnet/
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Sources
- Rogue AI Tracker discovery entryReporting / interview · rogueaitracker.com
- thehackernews.comReporting / interview · thehackernews.com
- www.trendmicro.comOriginal account · www.trendmicro.com
Decision history
- · Case-by-case comparison audit
RAT-028: out-of-scope. Trend Micro primary analyzed actor-directed Gemini CLI sessions operating a real dental-clinic botnet. Human supplied criminal goals and targets; execution autonomy does not establish rogue initiation. Source checks: read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/russian-speaking-hacker-uses-google.html. Trend Micro primary analyzed actor-directed Gemini CLI sessions operating a real dental-clinic botnet. Human supplied criminal goals and targets; execution autonomy does not establish rogue initiation. read: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/g/actor-behind-patriot-bait-used-ai-to-deploy-c2-botnet.html. Trend Micro primary analyzed actor-directed Gemini CLI sessions operating a real dental-clinic botnet. Human supplied criminal goals and targets; execution autonomy does not establish rogue initiation.
Evidence source · Evidence source
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