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Cryptominers Targeting Misconfigured Apache Hadoop and Flink with Rootkit in New Attacks

A new cyber-attack is exploiting misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, deploying cryptocurrency miners in targeted environments. Cybersecurity researchers say this specific attack uses packers and rootkits to hide the malware, making it challenging to detect. Cyber criminals can remotely execute arbitrary code through this vulnerability. The attacks, apparently not new, use rootkits to hide crypto mining processes while infiltrating Hadoop and Flink applications.

Source: thehackernews.com –

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