From Cryptojacking to DDoS Attacks: Diicot Expands Tactics with Cay

This paper describes previously undocumented payloads associated with a Romanian threat actor named Diicot.

This includes an executable that fetches and executes the SSH brute-forcer and Chrome if they don’t exist in the system.

An internet scanner based on Zmap can write the results of the operation to a text file (.txt) .Update

– An executable that grabs and executes both the sshd_brute.exe and chrome://bin/distributed_denial-of-service_dDoS_attacks.

The report also describes some of the other interesting features of the malware discovered by the security researchers.

These include: a malicious binary that can execute DDoS attacks against Linux hosts as part of a cryptojacking campaign.-

An internet scanning tool that can write data from the scanned packets to a zip file .

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