NoaBot Nightmare: Mirai’s Crypto-Mining Offspring Hacks the Globe in 2023

Meet NoaBot, the Mirai-based botnet turning SSH servers into its crypto-mining puppets. With a self-spreading twist and a sneaky SSH key backdoor, it’s a digital pickpocket in a world of vulnerable gadgets. Watch your digital wallet! #NoaBotNuisance

Published: Added: January 11, 2024 at 3:54 amAssembled by: J J
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Welcome to the latest cyber soap opera, "As the Botnet Turns," where our villain NoaBot enters stage left, flexing its muscle as the new Mirai-based mean machine in Cryptocurrency Mining Town. It's worming its way through the digital world with a key to the backdoor and an appetite for SSH servers. Ransomware is so 2020; this year, it's all about mining those digital coins in stealth mode, folks!

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