securitybreach 10,236 Posted July 5 Security researchers from Netlab, a network threat hunting unit of Chinese cyber-security giant Qihoo 360, have discovered the first ever malware strain seen abusing the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol. The malware, named Godlua, was detailed in a report published on Monday by the company's researchers. According to the Netlab team, Godlua is a malware strain written in Lua, which acts like a backdoor on infected systems. It's written to work on Linux servers, attackers are using a Confluence exploit (CVE-2019-3396) to infect outdated systems, and early samples uploaded on VirusTotal have mislabeled it as a cryptocurrency miner. But Netlab researchers say the malware actually works as a DDoS bot and they've already seen it being used in attacks, with one aimed against liuxiaobei.com, the homepage of a Liu Xiaobei fan site........... https://www.zdnet.com/article/first-ever-malware-strain-spotted-abusing-new-doh-dns-over-https-protocol/ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Digerati 177 Posted July 5 I hope users notice this is designed to attack Linux based systems. Sadly, some think if they switch to Linux, they are safe. That is not true. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
