March 21, 2023 thehackernews.com published that Poorly managed Linux SSH servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign that deploys different variants of a malware called ShellBot."ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS Bot malware developed in Perl and characteristically uses IRC protocol to communicate with the C&C server," AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) said in a report. ShellBot is installed on servers that have weak credentials, but only after threat actors make use of scanner malware to identify systems that have SSH port 22 open....Read More.......