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Nearly 800,000 FTP Servers Accessible Online Without Authentication

Very few have write access enabled, though. A recent brute-force scan of FTP servers available online via an IPv4 address revealed that 796,578 boxes can be accessed without the need for any credentials. The perpetrator of this scan is a security researcher that goes by the name of Minxomat, owner of a cyber-security firm that […]

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Thousands of infected FTP servers net attackers $88k in cryptocurrency

Targets foot hardware and electricity costs of mining Monero coins. Attackers are draining the CPU and power resources of thousands file transfer protocol servers by infecting them with malware that surreptitiously mints the relatively new crypto currency called Monero, researchers said. A notable percentage of the 3,000 or so infected servers are powered by Seagate Central, […]

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