Security News > 2024 > August > Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks.
The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack.
Mineping is a DDoS package designed for Minecraft game servers.
Attack chains entail the exploitation of internet-exposed Jupyter Notebook instances to run wget commands for fetching a ZIP archive hosted on a file-sharing site called Filebin.
The attack campaign has been attributed to a threat actor who goes by the name yawixooo, whose GitHub account has a public repository containing a Minecraft server properties file.
In October 2023, a Tunisian threat dubbed Qubitstrike was observed breaching Jupyter Notebooks in an attempt to illicitly mine cryptocurrency and breach cloud environments.
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