Old-School IRC, New Victims: Inside the Newly Discovered SSHStalker Linux Botnet

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Old-School IRC, New Victims: Inside the Newly Discovered SSHStalker Linux Botnet

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blueteamsecEnglish · 6 days ago

Flare’s research team has uncovered a previously undocumented Linux botnet operation we’re calling SSHStalker. To the best of our knowledge, no other research team has reported on this threat actor. Our SSH honeypot captured multiple attacks over two months, revealing a sophisticated operation that blends 2009-era Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet tactics with modern mass-compromise […]

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