Denonia: First Malware Targeting AWS Lambda

FortiGuard Labs is aware of a report that a new malware is designed to run in compromised AWS Lambda environments. Started in 2014, AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and runs code as a response to events, which some refer to as Function as a Service (FaaS). Written in Go, Denonia malware contains and runs a customized version of the XMRig cryptocurrency mining software in memory.Why is this Significant?This is significant as Denonia appears …

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