[Trend]Old Tools for New Money: URL Spreading Shellbot and XMRig Using 17-year old XHide

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Old Tools for New Money: URL Spreading Shellbot and XMRig Using 17-year old XHide

We found a threat that scans for open ports and brute forces systems with weak credentials to drop a Monero cryptocurrency miner. While the installation and mining process is hidden by old evasion tool XHide Process Faker, the malware can be used for bigger attacks in the future as both the shellbot and miner can be monetized.

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