Exposed Docker Server Abused to Drop Cryptominer DDoS Bot
released on 2020-09-16 @ 02:54:02 PM
Malicious actors continue to target environments running Docker containers. TrendMicro recently encountered an attack that drops both a malicious cryptocurrency miner and a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) bot on a Docker container built using Alpine Linux as its base image. A similar attack was also reported by Trend Micro in May; in that previous attack, threat actors created a malicious Alpine Linux container to also host a malicious cryptocurrency miner and a DDoS bot.