A new sophisticated SkidMap variant targets unsecured Redis servers

A new campaign targets Redis servers, this time the malware employed in the attacks is a new variant of the SkidMap malware. Skidmap is a piece of crypto-miner detected by Trend Micro in September 2019 while it was targeting Linux machines. The malicious code used kernel-mode rootkits to evade detection, it differs from similar miners because […]

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