Linux Users Hit With CHAOS Malware in Cybersecurity Mining Campaign

Linux users have been targeted in a cryptocurrency mining campaign that uses CHAOS, an open-source remote access trojan (RAT). The campaign was first spotted by cybersecurity experts in November 2022 and, to achieve persistence, the malware modifies the /etc/crontab file, a UNIX job scheduler that, in this case, downloads itself from Pastebin every 10 minutes, […]

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