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FritzFrog malware attacks Linux servers over SSH to mine Monero
- axsharma 6y agoFileless, serverless, versatile and advanced FritzFrog is a botnet AND a worm that masters self-replication, deployment, growth and mining crypto. Over 500 servers in the US and Europe belonging to government, education, healthcare and finance sectors have been breached already. Guardicore Labs has identified the strand and provided remediation guidance.
- baybal2 6y ago> government, education, healthcare and finance sectors Very strange pick of victims for a cryptominer. Can it be just a cover?
- Normille 6y agoI'm often impressed by the cleverness of the programming behind these bots / malwares and the ways they try and avoid detection and communicate back to their controllers. I can't help but wonder though; in a case like this where the malware is written in a relatively new language like Golang and uses some quite specialist techniques, whether the person behind it might be 'fingerprinting' themselves just by being one of a relatively small group of people who can do all of this 'stuff'?