This allowed the attackers to rake in more than $110,000 worth of raptoreum in the period between December 9 and December 17, leveraging the Log4shell vulnerability.
Hackers recently took control of a group of HP-branded servers and used them to remotely mine a cryptocurrency called raptoreum, according to reports. This resulted in the compromised cluster of HP machines becoming the biggest contributor to the total mining pool of the cryptocurrency, allowing attackers to rake in $110,000 worth. The coins are said to have been mined between December 9 and December 17.
The server group disappeared from the Raptoreun network on December 17, an indication that they could have been patched to eliminate the threat after it was detected.The attack used a recently discovered vulnerability called Log4shell, which allows attackers to gain control of a system remotely. Log4shell uses Log4j, which is a registry library used widely in Apache-based systems.
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