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    Cling Botnet Persistence Detected: Hidden .cling Malware Embedded into Linux Boot Process

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Marco Moran@MarcoM
    •updated 13 days ago•1•0•5

    The detection identifies Linux persistence activity associated with the Cling botnet, where a hidden executable (.cling) is copied to privileged locations, made executable, and registered to run automatically through system startup mechanisms.

    Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)

    Tags

    CVE-2021-35394kql

    Found in

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