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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

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Security experts discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Roboto that is targeting Linux servers running unpatched Webmin installs. In October one of the honeypots of the company captured the bot, its downloader , and some bot modules. Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix.

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Threat actors are attempting to exploit recently fixed F5 BIG-IP flaw

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Attackers are already attempting to exploit the recently fixed bug in F5 Networks BIG-IP product, security experts warn. The attacks against Warren’s honeypots originated from five different IP addresses. System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. Pierluigi Paganini.

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

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The popular researcher Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai SIRT, announced in exclusive to The Register, that he observed a miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux.

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