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Cybercriminals Targeting Apache NiFi Instances for Cryptocurrency Mining

By Ravie Lakshmanan — May 31st 2023 at 15:44
A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement. The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a spike in HTTP requests for “/nifi” on May 19, 2023. “Persistence is achieved via timed processors or entries to cron,” said Dr.
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