• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    maybe the number of files it scans looking for misconfigurations

    So how did it get into the system to be able to scan configuration files?

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      27 days ago

      Separate remote code execution vulnerability in unupdated versions of RocketMQ, a Chinese-developed messaging/streaming server, in the case of the infection described in the article. It’s possible that there are a few other RCE vulns it can make use of, but 20000 of them seems unlikely.