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CowerSnail Last month, a group of hackers who exploited SambaCry, a 7-year vulnerability in remote code execution in Samba network software to hack into Linux and install encryption malware- CowerSnail, was reported. The same group of hackers now run Windows machines with a new backdoor, which is a re-compiled version based on the same malicious […]
Attackers using the SambaCry vulnerability to target older versions of Samba(3.5.0) to upload and execute the malicious payload. SambaCry Vulnerability(CVE-2017-7494) have the similarities of SMB vulnerability exploited by WannaCry. Security experts from TrendMicro detected a Malware ELF_SHELLBIND.A which is similar to the functionality of SambaCry and this is the first payload with SambaCry that doesn’t […]
Someone is using the SambaCry vulnerability to install a backdoor trojan on Linux devices running older versions of the Samba file-sharing server. According to experts from Trend Micro, most of the attacks have targeted network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, some of which ship with the Samba server to provide file-sharing interoperability between different operating systems. SHELLBIND […]
SambaCry uses weaknesses in Samba’s facilities to make Linux machine concessions and use them as victims in the process of extracting decoded currency (or Monero Bitcoin or any other currency) also allows the remote attacker to hack the relevant Linux systems. SambaCry said in a safety notice: “All versions of Samba 3.5.0 vulnerable to a […]
Short Bytes: A few weeks ago, we got to know about a vulnerability that dealt with all versions of Samba. While a patch was released to fix this SMB protocol issue, researchers have managed to record the attacks using this flaw to target Linux machines and mine monero cryptocurrency. The SambaCry malware spreads by scanning for Raspberry […]