Cybersecurity

Alert: OracleIV DDoS Botnet Targets Public Docker Engine APIs to Hijack Containers

Nov 14, 2023NewsroomCloud Security / Malware Publicly-accessible Docker Engine API instances are being targeted by threat actors as part of a campaign designed to co-opt the machines into a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet dubbed OracleIV. “Attackers are exploiting this misconfiguration to deliver a malicious Docker container, built from an image named ‘oracleiv_latest’ and containing Python […]