A major botnet operation has been attacking and taking over the web shells (backdoors on web servers) of other malware operations for more than a year, security researchers from Positive Technologies have revealed. Researchers linked the botnet to a former Windows trojan named Neutrino (also known as Kasidet), whose operators appear to have shifted from targeting desktop users to online servers, on which they install a cryptocurrency-mining malware.
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@Amir Shaked, VP, R&D, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"To protect themselves, businesses need to think about hybrid threats..."
#infosec #cybersecurity #isdots
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