Gafgyt Strikes Again: Weak SSH Passwords Fuel Crypto-Mining Frenzy
Gafgyt botnet is back, this time targeting weak SSH passwords to mine cryptocurrency using compromised GPUs. Researchers warn that this variant aims at cloud-native environments with robust CPU and GPU capabilities. Secure your servers, folks – Gafgyt’s on a mining spree!
Hot Take:
Looks like Gafgyt has graduated from a petty thief breaking into your IoT gadgets to a full-blown digital pirate, now raiding cloud-native environments to score some Monero booty! Avast, ye unpatched servers!
Key Points:
- New Gafgyt botnet variant targets machines with weak SSH passwords.
- Botnet aims to mine cryptocurrency using GPU computational power.
- Targets robust servers in cloud-native environments like AWS, Azure, and Hadoop.
- Uses SSH brute-forcing and worming modules to propagate.
- Cryptominer in use is XMRig for Monero, leveraging GPU capabilities.
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