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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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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

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In October one of the honeypots of the company captured the bot, its downloader , and some bot modules. “Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.”