Encore: Another infection with new malware. [Research Saturday]

Published: Nov. 25, 2023, 8:10 a.m.

b'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'