techtimes

Researchers Discover Key-Stealing SSH-Snake Malware—Goes Undetected, Spreads Infections to New Systems

A recent discovery by the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has unveiled a concerning development in the realm of cybersecurity: SSH-Snake. This open-source network mapping tool, described as a ...
Bleeping Computer

New SSH-Snake malware steals SSH keys to spread across the network

A threat actor is using an open-source network mapping tool named SSH-Snake to look for private keys undetected and move laterally on the victim infrastructure. SSH-Snake was discovered by the Sysdig ...
Ars Technica

In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally ...
Dark Reading

GitHub's Private RSA SSH Key Mistakenly Exposed in Public Repository

GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary has replaced its SSH keys after someone inadvertently published its private RSA SSH host key part of the encryption scheme in an open GitHub repository. While some may ...