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New botnet and cryptominer Panchan attacking Linux servers.

Akamai Security Research announced on Wednesday it has uncovered a new botnet attacking the Linux servers of telecom and education providers in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

In addition to the basic SSH dictionary attack that is commonplace in most worms, Panchan is unique in that it harvests SSH keys to perform lateral movement, Akamai said.

If Panchan detects any process monitoring, it kills the cryptominer processes.

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