New PumaBot botnet brute forces SSH credentials to breach devices
A newly discovered Go-based Linux botnet malware named PumaBot is brute-forcing SSH credentials on embedded IoT devices to deploy malicious payloads. [...]
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A newly discovered Go-based Linux botnet malware named PumaBot is brute-forcing SSH credentials on embedded IoT devices to deploy malicious payloads. [...]
Poorly secured Linux SSH servers are being targeted by bad actors to install port scanners and dictionary attack tools with the goal of targeting other vulnerable servers and co-opting them into a network to carry out cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
A new botnet called 'RapperBot' has emerged in the wild since mid-June 2022, focusing on brute-forcing its way into Linux SSH servers and then establishing persistence. [...]