Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks
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A recently open-sourced network mapping tool called SSH-Snake has been repurposed by threat actors to conduct malicious activities.
“SSH-Snake is a self-modifying worm that leverages SSH credentials discovered on a compromised system to start spreading itself throughout the network,” Sysdig researcher Miguel Hernández said.
“The worm automatically searches through known credential
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