Outlaw hackers return with cryptocurrency mining botnet. The group is using Chinese victims as guinea pigs to try out their malware. The Outlaw hacking group has reemerged and is once again on the radar of cybersecurity researchers following the detection of a botnet attacking systems to mine for cryptocurrency. The botnet spreads a miner for Monero (XMR).
After a honeypot operated by the cybersecurity firm detected a URL spreading the botnet, the miner was found to be bundled with a Perl-based backdoor component and an SSH backdoor, both of which are elements associated with previous Outlaw attacks.
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