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‘Lemon Duck’ Cryptominer Aims for Linux Systems

‘Lemon Duck’ cryptominer mines for monero cryptocurrency, Sophos says. Gang that developed the malware is now deploying new obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. Lemon Duck uses COVID-19 pandemic themes in spam emails to persuade recipients to open malicious attachments. The malware uses the infected computer to replicate itself in a network and then uses the contacts from the victim’s Microsoft Outlook account to send additional spam emails. It then plants Mimikatz – a script used to steal credentials and escalate privileges within compromised Windows devices.”]

Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/lemon-duck-cryptominer-aims-for-linux-systems-a-14909

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