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Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters

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Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners. Cisco Talos experts have reported a spike in the attacks that leverage known flaws to compromise unsecured Elasticsearch clusters and use them to mine crypto-currencies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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

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This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. In this folder, the first one to be executed is the file “a”. The script looks like the following: Figure 5: Content of the “a” file. The executed crypto miner is the file named “” kswapd0 ” based on the famous XMRIG monero crypto miner.

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