A new version of the Medusa DDoS (distributed denial of service) botnet, based on Mirai code, has appeared in the wild, featuring a ransomware module and a Telnet brute-forcer.
Medusa is an old malware strain (not to be confused with the same-name Android trojan) being advertised in darknet markets since 2015, which later added HTTP-based DDoS capabilities in 2017.
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Source: Bleeping Computer