First-ever malware strain spotted abusing new DoH (DNS over HTTPS) pro

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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It's written to work on Linux servers, attackers are using a Confluence exploit (CVE-2019-3396) to infect outdated systems, and early samples uploaded on VirusTotal have mislabeled it as a cryptocurrency miner.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/

[Digerati 181]

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.