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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that's targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power. The infected devices are corralled into a botnet capable of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against targets of interest.
Fortinet has issued an alert warning that the Gafgyt botnet malware is actively trying to exploit a vulnerability in the end-of-life Zyxel P660HN-T1A router in thousands of daily attacks. [...]
A threat group that pursues crypto mining and distributed denial-of-service attacks has been linked to a new botnet called Enemybot, which has been discovered enslaving routers and Internet of Things devices since last month. "This botnet is mainly derived from Gafgyt's source code but has been observed to borrow several modules from Mirai's original source code," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in a report this week.
A prolific threat group known for deploying distributed denial-of-service and cryptomining attacks is running a new botnet that is built using the Linux-based Gafgyt source code along with some code from the Mirai botnet malware. Keksec is using the Enemybot malware as a classic botnet, rolling up compromised Internet of Things devices into a larger botnet that can be used to launch DDoS attacks.
Several variants of the Gafgyt Linux-based botnet malware family have incorporated code from the infamous Mirai botnet, researchers have discovered. Gafgyt is a botnet that was first uncovered in 2014.
Researchers have discovered what they say is the first variant of the Gafgyt botnet family to cloak its activity using the Tor network. In order to evade detection, Gafgyt tor uses Tor to hide its command-and-control communications, and encrypts sensitive strings in the samples.
Servers hosting Valve Source Engine and popular games like Fortnite are targeted by a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet.
By implementing the "Equifax bug," it's the first known time a Mirai IoT botnet variant has targeted an Apache Struts vulnerability.
