Worm and botnet Gitpaste-12 spreads via GitHub and Pastebin

Gitpaste-12, advanced software that exploits over 12 known vulnerabilities and has crypto-mining capabilities has been discovered to be distributed via GitHub and Pastebin. The malware was first detected on October 15th, but the code has existed on GitHub since June this year. The software cracks password using brute-force and exploit the known vulnerabilities of the devices it infects. Read more...