Watch Out! Cryptocurrency Miners Targeting Dockers, AWS and Alibaba Cloud

LemonDuck, a cross-platform cryptocurrency mining botnet, is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems as part of an active malware campaign. "It runs an anonymous mining operation by the use of proxy pools, which hide the wallet addresses," CrowdStrike said in a new report. "It evades detection by targeting Alibaba Cloud's monitoring service and disabling it." Known to strike

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