Exposed cPanel servers are being pulled into Mirai botnets
Daily Cyber News: Exposed cPanel servers are being pulled into Mirai botnets
Hosting providers and their customers face disruption as attackers exploit a critical authentication bypass in cPanel and WHM. The weakness lets an attacker reach administrative functions without a valid account, creating a path to server takeover. Monitoring found a sharp increase in Mirai-like traffic targeting Telnet, and many source addresses were linked to hosting providers running cPanel interfaces.
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