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New P2P botnet infects SSH servers

From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 27 15:15:50 2020

Hi Everyone,

I was reading https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/new-p2p-botnet-infects-ssh-servers-all-over-the-world/
and https://www.guardicore.com/2020/08/fritzfrog-p2p-botnet-infects-ssh-servers/.
The articles are a bit light on details with respect to infection
mechanisms.

Is there an active vulnerability associated with FritzFrog? Or does
the malware rely on accounts with weak/wounded/disclosed passwords and non-protected private keys?

(I'm running OpenSSH 8.3p1, but I'm wondering about a possible new
release soon).

Jeff

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