{"id":1712,"date":"2024-08-15T06:11:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T06:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/new-gafgyt-botnet-variant-targets-weak-ssh-passwords-for-gpu-crypto-mining\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T06:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T06:11:41","slug":"new-gafgyt-botnet-variant-targets-weak-ssh-passwords-for-gpu-crypto-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/new-gafgyt-botnet-variant-targets-weak-ssh-passwords-for-gpu-crypto-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that&#8217;s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.<br \/>\nThis indicates that the &#8220;IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,&#8221; Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that&#8217;s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.<br \/>\nThis indicates that the &#8220;IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,&#8221; Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that&#8217;s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power. This indicates that the &#8220;IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,&#8221; Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/new-gafgyt-botnet-variant-targets-weak-ssh-passwords-for-gpu-crypto-mining\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}