From the Front Lines | 8220 Gang Massively Expands Cloud Botnet to 30,000 Infected Hosts
released on 2022-07-19 @ 09:33:40 AM
Over the last month a crimeware group best known as 8220 Gang has expanded their botnet to roughly 30,000 hosts globally through the use of Linux and common cloud application vulnerabilities and poorly secured configurations. In a recent campaign, the group was observed making use of a new version of the IRC botnet, PwnRig cryptocurrency miner, and its generic infection script.