Tsunami bot, others deployed in new attacks against Linux SSH servers

Poorly secured Linux SSH servers have been subjected to brute-force attacks by an unknown threat actor deploying the Tsunami and ShellBot distributed denial-of-service bots, as well as privilege escalation tools, log cleaners, and an XMRig coin miner, reports BleepingComputer.

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