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Hackers Turn More Than 3,500 Redis Servers Into Cryptocurrency Miners

Cybersecurity NewsSeptember 9, 20264 min read

A large cryptomining operation has compromised 3,562 Redis servers and turned their processing power into a source of Monero revenue. The campaign did not rely on a newly discovered software flaw. Instead, it targeted internet-facing Redis instances that accepted commands without authentication. The operators scanned 12,966 potential targets, then used Redis replication features to plant […] The post Hackers Turn More Than 3,500 Redis Servers Into Cryptocurrency Miners appeared first on Cyber Security News.

A large cryptomining operation has compromised 3,562 Redis servers and turned their processing power into a source of Monero revenue. The campaign did not rely on a newly discovered software flaw. Instead, it targeted internet-facing Redis instances that accepted commands without authentication. The operators scanned 12,966 potential targets, then used Redis replication features to plant a scheduled task that downloaded and ran a miner. The result can be slower applications, unusually high processor use, higher cloud…

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