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Frog4Shell — FritzFrog Botnet Adds One-Days to Its Arsenal

Ori David is a Security Researcher at Akamai. His research is focused on offensive security, malware analysis, and threat hunting.

Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard

Executive summary

\r\n The Akamai Security Intelligence Group (SIG) has uncovered details about a new variant of the FritzFrog botnet, which abuses the 2021 Log4Shell vulnerability.

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\r\n Over the years we have seen more than 20,000 FritzFrog attacks, and 1,500+ victims.

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\r\n The malware infects internet-facing servers by brute forcing weak SSH credentials.…