Chimaera Toolkit Found on Thousands of Windows and Linux Systems Worldwide

From ehackingnews.com

AT&T’s Alien Labs security branch has raised the alarm about a TeamTNT malware campaign that has gone almost totally undiscovered by anti-virus systems and is converting target machines into bitcoin miners, according to the company. TeamTNT, dubbed “one of the most active threat organizations since 2020” by Alien Labs researcher Ofer Caspi, is notorious for its exploitation – and misuse – of open-source security tools for anything from identifying susceptible targets to dumping remote-control shells. 
Last year, TeamTNT was discovered and linked to bitcoin mining malware being installed on susceptible Docker containers. Trend Micro discovered that the organization tries to steal AWS credentials in order to spread to other servers, while Cado Security discovered TeamTNT targeting Kubernetes installations more recently. 

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