Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.
This indicates that the « IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments, » Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.
This indicates that the « IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments, » Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.