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z0Miner Exploits Korean Web Servers to Attack WebLogic Server

AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) has found numerous cases of threat actors attacking vulnerable Korean servers. This post introduces one of the recent case in which the threat actor ‘z0Miner’ attacked Korean WebLogic servers. z0Miner was first introduced by Tencent Security, a Chinese Internet service provider. https://s.tencent.com/research/report/1170.html (This link is only available in Chinese.) These threat actors have a history of distributing miners against vulnerable servers (Atlassian Confluence, Apache ActiveMQ, Log4J, etc.), and they were frequently mentioned in the ASEC…

Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability (CVE-2023-46604) Continuously Being Exploited in Attacks

In November 2023, AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) published a blog post titled “Circumstances of the Andariel Group Exploiting an Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability (CVE-2023-46604)” [1] which covered cases of the Andariel threat group exploiting the CVE-2023-46604 vulnerability to install malware. This post not only covered attack cases of the Andariel group but also those of HelloKitty Ransomware, Cobalt Strike, and Metasploit Meterpreter. Since then, the Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability (CVE-2023-46604) has continued to be exploited by various threat actors. This…