Ugh, Fine. Here’s What’s Happening (Don’t Expect Gratitude)

Right, so some script kiddies – or their slightly more competent cousins, whatever – are flinging malware called Soco404 and Koske at cloud servers. Big shocker. Apparently, they’re going after Linux, Windows *and* macOS systems. Like, haven’t these clowns heard of segmentation? Honestly.

It’s a cross-platform cryptomining operation, meaning they want your processing power to make their money. They’re using pretty standard stuff – abusing legitimate tools like `cron`, `PowerShell` and launchd to stay persistent. It’s not exactly rocket science; it’s more like… aggressively annoying persistence. They get in through various means, including exploiting vulnerabilities (surprise!) and just plain old brute-forcing credentials. Like I said, *competent cousins*.

The article mentions they’re targeting a bunch of different cloud providers – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean… the whole shebang. Because why bother picking one when you can annoy everyone? They’re also using some obfuscation techniques to try and hide their tracks, but honestly, it’s not fooling anyone with half a brain.

The fix? Patch your systems. Use strong passwords. Implement multi-factor authentication. You know, the basics that people *still* ignore. And for god’s sake, monitor your cloud environments! I swear, you lot are just begging to get owned.

Source: The Hacker News

And a Story For You…

I once had to clean up a server that was infected with something similar, except it was mining Dogecoin. Dogecoin! The sysadmin thought it was “a fun little project.” A *fun little project* that brought the entire production network to its knees. I spent three days rebuilding the thing from scratch and all they got was 0.03 Dogecoin. Seriously. People are unbelievable.

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