A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement.
The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a spike in HTTP requests for “/nifi” on May 19, 2023.
“Persistence is achieved via timed processors or entries to cron,” said Dr.
Misconfigured Redis database servers are the target of a novel cryptojacking campaign that leverages a legitimate and open source command-line file transfer service to implement its attack.
"Underpinning this campaign was the use of transfer[.]sh," Cado Security said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "It's possible that it's an attempt at evading detections based on other common code
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