{"id":164896,"date":"2023-05-31T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cybercriminals-targeting-apache-nifi-instances-for-cryptocurrency-mining"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:25:28","slug":"cybercriminals-targeting-apache-nifi-instances-for-cryptocurrency-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cybercriminals-targeting-apache-nifi-instances-for-cryptocurrency-mining","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Targeting Apache NiFi Instances for Cryptocurrency Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybercriminals-targeting-apache-nifi-instances-for-cryptocurrency-mining.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected <a href=\"https:\/\/nifi.apache.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apache NiFi instances<\/a> to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a spike in HTTP requests for \u201c\/nifi\u201d on May 19, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersistence is achieved via timed processors or entries to cron,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/isc.sans.edu\/diary\/Your%20Business%20Data%20and%20Machine%20Learning%20at%20Risk%3A%20Attacks%20Against%20Apache%20NiFi\/29900\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Dr. Johannes Ullrich, dean of research for SANS Technology Institute. \u201cThe attack script is not saved to the system. The attack scripts are kept in memory only.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement. The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a spike in HTTP requests for \u201c\/nifi\u201d on May 19, 2023. \u201cPersistence is achieved via timed processors or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}