Security News It Isn’t Ransomware, But It Will Take Over Your Server Anyway

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In this week’s Tales From Ransomware, we take a look at a ransomware that isn’t really ransomware. Nor even malware. But it can hijack your server anyway.

A few days ago we saw a typical Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attack, which lead us to believe that it was a similar attack to the one we told you about a few months ago which cybercriminals are using to infect devices with ransomware. But we were very wrong...

 

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It was only a matter of time that something like this was found, but let me get this straight: It tries to brute force your computer, and install this program or is it something that is installed under the guise of a bitcoin mining program.