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New Chaos malware spreads over multiple architectures.

Chaos, in addition to being able to work on multiple platforms, has also been designed to use known vulnerabilities and brute force SSH. Lumen researchers assess that Chaos is an evolution from the DDoS malware Kaiji based on code and function overlaps.

Chaos malware has been developed to accomplish several different tasks.

Chaos malware is also able to drop cryptocurrency miners and start using an infected computer for mining.

Chaos malware sometimes exploits common vulnerabilities, and being fully patched can prevent the malware from further spreading in the network.

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