New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.
This indicates that the “IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,” Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.