Massive Cyber Attack On Australia Network That Exploit Several Vulnerability

According to the Australian Officials Their Country Network Came Under the Attack recently, and the security advisory states are one of the Vulnerabilities which is exploited by the hackers in order to link to crypto-jacking malware attacks.

As per the Government body, a group of the “state actor” target the Australian Network On the June 19, and the hackers managed to exploit the four critical vulnerabilities in Telerik UI, Not only this the One Vulnerability of CVE-2019-18935 Particularly that poses the greater risk, Earlier the new malware Golang Also Detected.

Targeted With Crypto Jacking Malware

The reason behind this attack was to clearly install the Crypto Mining Software within corporate networks, However, it is still unclear that somehow managed or infected the computer of the Corporate network or not, by planting this Cryptojacking Malware.

However, this is not the first time, earlier last month same kind of incident emerged where the Crypto-jacking malware infected more than Thousands of the Enterprises computer by just installing the Monero Mining Application, and the Blue Mockingbird Malware Gang Was behind that.

The Australian Cyber Security also Rolled out the Advisory in this manner

The Said all the exploits utilized by the Actor on the campaign were publicly known and had patches or mitigation available on market, however, the organization should ensure that security patches or mitigation are applied to the internet within 48hours and also asked the organization to use the latest version of the Software and Operating systems.

According to the Australian Government, This Exploitation of the CVE-2019-18935 generally used to the execution of the Vulnerable systems, and hackers used copies of the public proof of concept exploit code as a payload, and this copies used for a sleep test and reverse shell binary.

Possible Chinese hackers Could be behind this attack as the Government also found the involvement of the PLugX malware as well which is preferred by most Chinese group.