HeadCrab 2.0 discovered
The HeadCrab campaign against Redis servers, which has been active since 2021, continues to successfully infect targets with the new version. The criminals' mini-blog in the code provides clues and takes swipes at the defenders. Last year, the then new malware HeadCrab caused trouble. Cybercriminals used the cutting-edge malware, which remains undetectable by agentless and traditional antivirus solutions, to compromise Redis servers. The criminals' campaign has been active since September 2021 and by the beginning of 2023 had already compromised 1.200 servers worldwide in order to misuse them for cryptojacking. Now the security experts discovered...