Lemon Duck Develops into a Botnet Trying Hands-On-Keyboard Attacks

Throughout the past two years, a fine crypto-mining malware outbreak has developed into a gigantic botnet system and is now experimenting in infiltrated networks using hands-on-keyboard invasions, foreshadowing a serious turn that the group’s controllers could see in the future with ransomware or other risky attacks. 

The botnet observed by the Israeli security company Guardicore during the first half of 2019 was identified as a LemonDuck. The malware LemonDuck is a code that can create undesirable, typically catastrophic system modifications. LemonDuck robs credentials, eliminates security measures, distributes emails, moves sideways, and finally drops more tools for human-operated gadgets. 

The botnet was originally a tiny operation that depended on classical email spam to deliver malicious files which would implant malware in victim devices.

LemonDuck’s earliest versions were relatively simple. The systems have been infected, security software disabled, and then a Monero-mining application has been used to make money from the computer resources of the hacked company. 

The malware has witnessed one of the most spectacular developments in every botnet operation during the previous two years. It has continued to receive upgrades in its features, the innovation was visible as the authors of the malware introduced support for online attacks to the botnet with a new infection technique, in 2021.

Botnet attacked unsecured web servers employing exploit code and cred

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