Cybercriminal groups and opportunistic botnet operators continue to shift toward scale-first, persistence-driven operations that rely heavily on misconfigurations, weak authentication, and long-tail vulnerabilities rather than sophisticated zero-days. Recent analyses by Flare and other cybersecurity researchers reveal how a new botnet—SSHStalker—is rapidly expanding across the global Linux landscape through automated SSH scanning, brute-force attacks, and exploitation […]
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