Encore: Another infection with new malware. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 25 November 2023

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Larry Cashdollar, Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer from Akamai Technologies, joins Dave to talk about their research on "KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware." Akamai's Security Research team has found a new malware that infected their honeypot, which they have dubbed KmsdBot. The research states "The malware attacks using UDP, TCP, HTTP POST, and GET, along with a command and control infrastructure (C2), which communicates over TCP." The botnet targets weak login credentials and then infects systems via an SSH connection. The research can be found here: KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities
1:34.1	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly
1:38.0	evolving cyberspace.
1:39.8	Thanks for joining us. I recently had downloaded a honeypot that was written in Golang, and it was immediately getting hits after I'd say,
1:57.1	oh, 15 or 20 minutes of being up, but I noticed an automated scan came in and it tried to download some malware to my system.
2:07.0	That's Larry Cashdollar, Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer at Akamai.
2:12.0	The research we're discussing today is titled Intelligence Response Engineer at Akamai.
2:12.6	The research we're discussing today is titled KMSD Bot, the Attack and Mind malware. And normally the hits are just you know sessh scanners and folks just looking to drop an
2:34.5	XM rig on there and do some mining. But I noticed an
2:38.1	automated an automated scan came in and it tried to download some malware to my system.
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