Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks
Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks
22 February 2024
A recently open-sourced network mapping tool called SSH-Snake has been repurposed by threat actors to conduct malicious activities.
"SSH-Snake is a self-modifying worm that leverages SSH credentials discovered on a compromised system to start spreading itself throughout the network," Sysdig researcher Miguel Hernández said.
"The worm automatically searches through known credential