20-08-2020 20:18 via infosecurity-magazine.com

Sophisticated Peer-to-Peer Botnet Discovered

Sophisticated Peer-to-Peer Botnet DiscoveredResearchers have discovered a sophisticated new peer-to-peer botnet that has been actively breaching Secure Shell servers since January. FritzFrog, which executes a worm malware written in Golang, was unearthed by a team at Guardicore. The malware deployed by the botnet is multi-threaded and fileless and disconcertingly leaves no trace on the disks of the machines it infects.It creates a backdoor in the form of an SSH public key, providing th
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