#Qubitstrike

Qubitstrike Targets Jupyter Notebooks with Crypto Mining and Rootkit Campaign

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October 18, 2023 at 08:15AM A new campaign called Qubitstrike has emerged, targeting exposed Jupyter Notebooks to mine cryptocurrency and breach cloud environments. The threat actor, likely from Tunisia, uses the Telegram API to steal credentials and launch the attack. The primary payload is a shell script that executes a cryptocurrency miner, establishes persistence, and … Read more

Qubitstrike attacks rootkit Jupyter Linux servers to steal credentials

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October 18, 2023 at 08:02AM Hackers are targeting internet-exposed Jupyter Notebooks to breach servers and deploy malware, including a Linux rootkit, crypto miners, and password-stealing scripts. This new campaign, called ‘Qubitstrike,’ aims to hijack Linux servers for cryptomining and steal credentials for cloud services. The malware is hosted on codeberg.org, marking the first instance of … Read more