SambaCry Vulnerability: A vulnerability in Samba's facilities on Linux systems allows attacks for a huge business cryptocurrency mining.
The actions of malicious users began about five days after the Samba development team announced the patch CVE-2017-7494, which fixes a vulnerability in all versions of Samba released by 2010.
Because the vulnerability is exploitable through the SMB protocol and because the issue resembled the vulnerability used by the SMB WannaCry ransomware, some researchers started to report the bug like SambaCry or EternalRed.
On a technical level, a successful SambaCry exploit allows an intruder to open a "pipe" or a path to Samba's servers, upload malicious code and execute it. Depending on the skill level of the attacker, one could easily gain complete control of the server.
That is exactly what happened. Starting May 30, hackers began running mass scans looking for vulnerable Samba file sharing servers.
After discovering Samba facilities, the attackers began to load and run malicious code on their victims' machines.
Attack is done with two malicious files: one is a remote shell with full root access, and the other one is a modified version of the popular crypto-currency mining application called cpuminer.
Experts from Kaspersky Labs who are following the attacks report that the crook or crooks behind this operation mined Monero crypto-coins using the Linux systems they managed to break.
Η monitoring των επιτιθέμενων ήταν εύκολη, επειδή κωδικοποίησαν τη διεύθυνση του Monero wallet μέσα στον πηγαίο κώδικα του EternalMiner. Μέχρι τώρα οι ερευνητές αναφέρουν ότι οι hackers έχουν καταφέρει να εξορύξουν 98 Monero, περίπου 5.400 δολάρια στη σημερινή price.
According to Rapid7 security researchers, since it became known the theme of SambaCry, on May 25 there were approximately 104.000 exposed computers on the Internet running vulnerable versions of the Samba software. The number has decreased as many administrators have updated their systems, but there are still many vulnerable servers that allow file sharing.
