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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

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Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. This is the “ Stage 1 ”. Figure 18: SSH traffic from C2.

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