BEWARE !CHINESE GoLang MALWARE MAKING SERVERS A CRYPTOMINER

In this article, we will talk about a campaign which is being run by Chinese Cyber criminals and this time they don’t want to watch what we are doing, rather they want some resources from our system to mine cryptocurrency. Some researchers from Barracuda have researched about a new variant of Golang(a high level language) malware that is making victim’s machine a cryptominer.This malware does not affect our local machines, rather it targets the back end servers which are either running on Linux or windows. They directly attack on the backbone of a web application framework and exploit some vulnerabilities in the server. After getting settled inside the machine, they start…