The Rising Diicot Threat Group with Diverse Attack Capabilities

A Romanian threat group “Diicot” has been actively employing SSH bruteforcing and deploying malware loaders to compromise systems for the purpose of cryptocurrency mining. The campaign involves exploiting OpenWRT systems and deploying customized XMRig variants alongside aliases and disguised network scanners.

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