GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto and Blockchain Databases in New Attack Campaign

A new wave of attacks by the GoBruteforcer botnet is targeting cryptocurrency and blockchain project databases to integrate them into a malicious network. This botnet exploits weak credentials to conduct brute-force attacks against services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. The spread of these attacks is facilitated by the widespread reuse of AI-generated server deployment examples, which propagate vulnerable default configurations. No details regarding the exact timeframe or the number of victims have been disclosed.