The 8220 Cryptomining Gang massively expands Cloud Botnets

Threat Level – Amber | Vulnerability Report
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The 8220 gang has significantly expanded their cloud bot armies around the world, targeting AWS, Azure, GCP, Alitun, and QCloud cloud service hosts. The group is being detected using a new version of the IRC botnet, the PwnRig cryptocurrency miner, and its standard infection script

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