{"id":179247,"date":"2023-12-27T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/warning-poorly-secured-linux-ssh-servers-under-attack-for-cryptocurrency-mining"},"modified":"2023-12-27T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:23:00","slug":"warning-poorly-secured-linux-ssh-servers-under-attack-for-cryptocurrency-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/warning-poorly-secured-linux-ssh-servers-under-attack-for-cryptocurrency-mining","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Poorly Secured Linux SSH Servers Under Attack for Cryptocurrency Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warning-poorly-secured-linux-ssh-servers-under-attack-for-cryptocurrency-mining.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poorly secured Linux SSH servers are being targeted by bad actors to install port scanners and dictionary attack tools with the goal of targeting other vulnerable servers and co-opting them into a network to carry out cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreat actors can also choose to install only scanners and sell the breached IP and account credentials on the dark web,\u201d the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/asec.ahnlab.com\/en\/59972\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In these attacks, adversaries try to guess a server\u2019s SSH credentials by running through a list of commonly used combinations of usernames and passwords, a technique called dictionary attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poorly secured Linux SSH servers are being targeted by bad actors to install port scanners and dictionary attack tools with the goal of targeting other vulnerable servers and co-opting them into a network to carry out cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. \u201cThreat actors can also choose to install only scanners and sell the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179247","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}