More than 600 servers worldwide have been subjected to recent attacks with the Androxgh0st malware, reports Hackread.
The U.S., India, and Taiwan accounted for the bulk of the impacted servers, which were compromised by Androxgh0st malware operators through web shells deployed via the exploitation of several security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-2725, CVE-2021-3129, and CVE-2024-1709, a report from Veriti Research revealed.
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Source: SC Media
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