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New Lucifer DDoS malware creates a legion of Windows minions

A new botnet identified in the wild leverages close to a dozen exploits for high and critical-severity vulnerabilities against Windows systems to turn them into cryptomining clients and sources for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The authors gave the malware the name Satan DDoS but security researchers call it Lucifer, to distinguish it from the Satan ransomware threat. A list of weaponized exploits used by Lucifer operators is available below, and all have been patched. A newer version of the malware comes with anti-analysis protection and checks the user and computer name of the infected machine before proceeding any further.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-lucifer-ddos-malware-creates-a-legion-of-windows-minions/

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