A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that's capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers.
"The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment examples that propagate common



Source: TheHackerNews
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