Another infection with new malware. [Research Saturday]

Published: Nov. 19, 2022, 8 a.m.

Larry Cashdollar, Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer from Akamai Technologies, joins Dave to talk about their research on "KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware." Akamai's Security Research team has found a new malware that infected their honeypot, which they have dubbed KmsdBot.\xa0\nThe research states "The malware attacks using UDP, TCP, HTTP POST, and GET, along with a command and control infrastructure (C2), which communicates over TCP." The botnet targets weak login credentials and then infects systems via an SSH connection.\nThe research can be found here:\nKmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices