cryptomining campaign

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2022
8220 Gang Cloud Botnet infected 30,000 host globally

The crimeware group known as 8220 Gang expanded over the last month their Cloud Botnet to roughly 30,000 hosts globally.  Researchers from SentinelOne reported that low-skill crimeware 8220 Gang has expanded their Cloud Botnet over the last month to roughly 30,000 hosts globally.  The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2018
A new massive cryptomining campaign target Linux servers exploiting old flaw

Trend Micro uncovered a new crypto mining campaign targeting Linux servers that exploit the CVE-2013-2618 flaw in Cacti’s Network Weathermap plug-in, which system administrators use to visualize network activity. Security firm Trend Micro uncovered new crypto mining campaign, a cybercriminal gang has made nearly $75,000 by installing a Monero miner on vulnerable Linux servers. The […]