Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool | Cybersecurity

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Aug 03, 2024. Ravie Lakshmanan DDoS Attack / Server Security.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks.

The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is a DDoS package designed for Minecraft game servers.

Attack chains entail the exploitation of internet-exposed Jupyter Notebook instances to run wget commands for fetching a ZIP archive hosted on a file-sharing site called Filebin.

The ZIP file contains two Java archive (JAR) files, conn.jar and mineping.jar, with the former used to establish connections to a Discord channel and trigger the execution of the mineping.jar package.

“This attack aims to consume the resources of the target server by sending a large number…

Source thehackernews.com

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