Security News > 2024 > February > Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks

2024-02-22 11:07
A recently open-sourced network mapping tool called SSH-Snake has been repurposed by threat actors to conduct malicious activities. "SSH-Snake is a self-modifying worm that leverages SSH credentials discovered on a compromised system to start spreading itself throughout the network," Sysdig researcher Miguel Hernández said. "The worm automatically searches through known credential
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