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Plex Honeypot Hijacked
Attackers hijacked a Plex honeypot after unauthenticated exploit chain.
In brief
Attackers hijacked a Plex honeypot after unauthenticated exploit chain. Attackers turned an outdated Plex Media Server honeypot into a cryptocurrency miner and proxy after chaining unauthenticated server exploits. Originally reported by RuntimeWire.
Plex Honeypot
A researcher says attackers turned an outdated Plex Media Server honeypot into a cryptocurrency miner and proxy.
Unauthenticated Exploit
An October 18th post by International Cyber Digest described an unauthenticated route to server takeover.
Hijack Consequence
Attackers may use its compute and network access after chaining flaws into server-level code execution.
The takeaway
Attackers turned an outdated Plex Media Server honeypot into a cryptocurrency miner and proxy after chaining unauthenticated server exploits.
