Linux Botnet Adding BlueKeep-Flawed Windows RDP Servers to Its Target List

Have you heard about the BlueKeep vulnerability that has been discovered in Windows RDP servers? Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new variant ofWatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware botnet, which now also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to theBluekeep flaw.

BlueKeep is a highly-critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Services that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take full control over vulnerable systems just by sending specially crafted requests over RDP protocol.

Though thepatches for the BlueKeepvulnerability (CVE–2019-0708) was already released by Microsoft in May this year, more than800,000 Windows machinesaccessible over the Internet are still vulnerable to the critical flaw.