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FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets

Ophir leads the security research team in Akamai's Enterprise Security Group.

Executive Summary

\r\n \r\n Guardicore has discovered FritzFrog, a sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that has been actively breaching SSH servers since January 2020.

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\r\n Golang-based malware: FritzFrog executes a worm malware that is written in Golang, and is modular, multithreaded, and fileless, leaving no trace on the infected machine’s disk.

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\r\n Actively targeting government, education, finance, and more: FritzFrog has attempted to brute force and propagate to tens of millions of IP addresses of government offices, educational institutions, medical centers, banks, and telecom companies.…