Cryptominers Targeting Misconfigured Apache Hadoop and Flink with Rootkit in New Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners within targeted environments.
« This attack is particularly intriguing due to the attacker’s use of packers and rootkits to conceal the malware, » Aqua security researchers Nitzan Yaakov and Assaf Morag said in an analysis published earlier