Fritzfrog Botnet Returns To Attack Healthcare Education Government Sectors
FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet discovered in January 2020. Over a period of eight months, the botnet managed to strike at least 500 government and enterprise SSH servers. The P2P botnet, written in the Golang programming language, is decentralized in nature and will attempt to brute-force servers, cloud instances, and other devices – including routers – that have exposed entry points on the internet. On Thursday, cybersecurity researchers from Akamai Threat Labs said that despite having gone quiet after its previous attack wave, since December, the botnet has reappeared with an exponential growth surge....