HeadCrab Malware Infects 1,200 Redis servers to Mine Monero

Since September 2021, about a thousand Redis servers have been infected by new stealthy malware meant to hunt down unprotected Redis servers online and create a botnet that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency. The malware, nicknamed HeadCrab by Aqua Security experts Nitzan Yaakov and Asaf Eitani, has so far infected at least 1,200 of these servers, which […]

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