According to Checkpoint, the “FreakOut” malware attack is exploiting “newest vulnerabilities.”
Cybersecurity researchers identify vulnerabilities regularly, some serious, some not. In the latest, researchers from Checkpoint have discovered a range of attacks against Linux devices.
Dubbed FreakOut; the malware attack is being carried out to create an IRC botnet. It is worth noting that an IRC Botnet is a collection of machines infected with malware that can be controlled remotely via an IRC channel.
Done by a threat actor named “freak;” the botnet in question would allow attackers to perform malicious tasks such as brute-forcing attacks, network sniffing, killing processes, crypto-mining, and DDoS attacks.
Delving into the details, the campaign is not aimed at the masses but chooses a targeted approach in which it only attacks systems running the TerraMaster operating system ZEND framework or Liferay Portal. What’s troubling is that all 3 have a significant number of users globally.
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According to Checkpoint, the “FreakOut” malware attack is exploiting “newest vulnerabilities.”
Cybersecurity researchers identify vulnerabilities regularly, some serious, some not. In the latest, researchers from Checkpoint have discovered a range of attacks against Linux devices.
Dubbed FreakOut; the malware attack is being carried out to create an IRC botnet. It is worth noting that an IRC Botnet is a collection of machines infected with malware that can be controlled remotely via an IRC channel.
Done by a threat actor named “freak;” the botnet in question would allow attackers to perform malicious tasks such as brute-forcing attacks, network sniffing, killing processes, crypto-mining, and DDoS attacks.
Delving into the details, the campaign is not aimed at the masses but chooses a targeted approach in which it only attacks systems running the TerraMaster operating system ZEND framework or Liferay Portal. What’s troubling is that all 3 have a significant number of users globally.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Linux