More worries have bubbled up in Drupal vulnerability. The worse has yet to come. Within a short spell of three months, the malicious malware has turned into a huge tool for the cybercriminals to mint condition cryptocurrencies.
Experts say the even after the presence of a slew of measures, the criminals have made the entire system a malicious one to extract undue profit.
What they deploy here is Drupalgeddon 2, the combination of Drupal software and the vulnerability arising thereof to keep minting profit.
The cryptojacking malware in question is deployed here by the attackers to exploit the advantage of the Drupal device that mints Montero to be rushed to their purses without the notice of the real account holders.
The affected account holder might get to know once he notices the slow pace of his system.
An attacker keeps exploiting the vulnerability of the CVE-2018-7602 remote code of Drupal and with this malicious mechanism, then they manipulate the Drupal contents and sometimes delete these to carry out the operation.
The crypto currency minting malware surfaced in April this year during a research by Trend Micro where the vulnerability was proved to have been deployed to mint monetary benefit by the criminals.
According to the experts, the technique inThanks and use, is a strange one where the entire malicious operation is carried out under a micro managed network to escape the impending risk.
The malware also helps the criminals check the details of the miners—time and the mode of their operations. Only then a malicious miner installs the proper mechanism to strike.
More and more stunning facts and figures have surfaced during the research on the three month old Drupal vulnerability. What shields the cybercriminals is the Tor network as they mint cryptocurrency.
This is in addition to the deployment of the virtual private network (VPN) which keeps them traceless.
During the investigation, the cyber security experts tried to track the criminals acting on the IP link. But of no avail.
The number of cryptojacking attempts eludes. Then they issued instructions and suggestions to patch the vulnerabilities to avert the impending risk of malicious attacks.
They minutely observed that apart from patching, normal course to update the Drupal helps the users keep the threat at bay.
A slew of guidelines is circulating among the Drupal users sounding alert of attack on the unsupported versions.
To top it all, unpatched Drupal is a huge threat to be dealt with and any form of vulnerability in a website might be the cause of data breach.
