Actively exploited to drop botnet and cryptomining malware

Actively exploited to drop botnet and cryptomining malware

3 years ago
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/omigod-microsoft-azure-vms-exploited-to-drop-mirai-miners/

Threat actors started actively exploiting the critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities two days after Microsoft disclosed them during this month's Patch Tuesday.

The four security flaws (allowing privilege escalation and remote code execution) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently installed by Microsoft on more than half of all Azure instances.

Actively exploited to drop botnet and cryptomining malware

Sep 17, 2021, 4:15pm UTC
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/omigod-microsoft-azure-vms-exploited-to-drop-mirai-miners/ > Threat actors started actively exploiting the critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities two days after Microsoft disclosed them during this month's Patch Tuesday. > The four security flaws (allowing privilege escalation and remote code execution) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently installed by Microsoft on more than half of all Azure instances.