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Cryptomining botnet targeting Docker on Linux systems

LemonDuck, a well-known cryptomining botnet, is targeting Docker on Linux systems to coin digital money, CloudStrike has reported.

The vendor's threat research team revealed in a blog written by Manoj Ahuje that the botnet is leveraging Docker APIs exposed to the internet to run malicious containers on Linux systems.

Ratan Tipirneni, president and CEO of Tigera, a provider of security and observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud, added that while Docker provides a high degree of programmability, flexibility, and automation it has an unintended side effect of increasing the attack surface.

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