The cybercriminal organization behind the InterPlanetary Storm malware has released a new variant into the wild, now targeting Mac and Android devices in addition to Windows and Linux machines. The malware is building a botnet, which Barracuda researchers estimate currently includes roughly 13,500 infected machines located in 84 different countries around the world, and that number continues to grow.
The majority of the machines infected by the malware are located in Asia.
Here is a closer look at this evolving threat and solutions to help detect, block, and remediate the attacks.
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New variant of InterPlanetary Storm malware — This new malware variant gains access to machines by running a dictionary attack against SSH servers, similar to FritzFrog, another peer-to-peer (p2p) malware. It can also gain entry by accessing open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) servers. The malware detects the CPU ar ..
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