THANATOSCRYPT IS EXPLOITING BLUEKEEP VULNERABILITY TO MINE CRYPTO FROM YOUR SYSTEMS

Some days before, Ethical Debuggers presented how Chinese hackers are attacking servers to mine cryptocurrency from them. Today, we are presenting a similar campaign ,which is currently going on ,to mine cryptocurrency from your systems . It was found by Tencent Security Intelligence Team. This time the hackers used a simple phenomenon to attack on your systems. They used a Bluekeep vulnerability which was discovered in early May, an year ago. It was a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Desktop Protocol and allows attacker to execute arbitrary code post exploitation. This vulnerability was regarded as one of the high-risk vulnerability and can be tracked via CVE-2019-0708. On 6 September 2019, Metasploit launched…