[Trend]Outlaw Group Distributes Botnet for Cryptocurrency-Mining, Scanning, and Brute-Force

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Outlaw Group Distributes Botnet for Cryptocurrency-Mining, Scanning, and Brute-Force

We spotted two variants of activities from hacking group Outlaw. The script used in the first version of its bot has two functionalities: the miner and Haiduc-based dropper. The second variant of the code, distributed by the bot, was mainly designed to brute force and further exploit the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol and cloud administration cPanel in order to escalate the privileges.

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