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KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware

Larry Cashdollar has been working in the security field as a vulnerability researcher for more than 20 years and is currently a Principal Security Researcher on the Security Intelligence Response Team at Akamai. He studied computer science at the University of Southern Maine. Larry has documented more than 300 CVEs and has presented his research at BotConf, BSidesBoston, OWASP Rhode Island, and DEF CON. He enjoys the outdoors and rebuilding small engines in his spare time.

Akamai Security Research has observed a new malware that infected our honeypot, which we have dubbed KmsdBot.…