'FreakOut' Botnet Targets Unpatched Linux Systems
The FreakOut botnet is targeting Linux-based systems that include the TerraMaster operating system, which manages TerraMaster network-attached storage servers; the Zend framework, designed to build web application services using PHP; and Liferay Portal, a web application platform that enables users to create portals and websites. Each of these open-source systems has a vulnerability that the FreakOut botnet attempts to exploit, the researchers say. In the TerraMaster OS, the remote code execution flaw is tracked as CVE-2020-28188. The Zend framework deserialization bug is listed as CVE-2021-3...