Tag: Kinsing Malware
-
Kinsing Cryptojackers Expand Botnet, Exploit Fresh Vulnerabilities
The Kinsing cryptojacking group continues to evolve, posing a persistent threat in the digital realm. AquaSec reports that since 2019, Kinsing has been orchestrating illicit cryptocurrency mining campaigns, swiftly integrating new vulnerabilities to expand its botnet. Kinsing, also known as H2Miner, refers both to the malware and the group behind it. Since its first documentation…
-
Kinsing Malware Exploits Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability to Mine Cryptocurrency
Security researchers from Trend Micro have discovered that the Kinsing malware (also known as h2miner) is actively exploiting the Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability CVE-2023-46604 to download and infect Linux systems with cryptocurrency miners. This vulnerability, which allows for remote code execution (RCE), has been used by Kinsing to infiltrate servers and spread rapidly across networks. The…