New ShellBot DDoS Malware Targeting Poorly Managed Linux Servers
New ShellBot DDoS Malware Targeting Poorly Managed Linux Servers
21 March 2023
Poorly managed Linux SSH servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign that deploys different variants of malware called ShellBot.
"ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS Bot malware developed in Perl and characteristically uses IRC protocol to communicate with the C&C server," AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) said in a report.
ShellBot is installed on servers that