Smominru has several methods of infiltration. Smominru is made up of over 500,000 infected nodes (with some estimates landing at closer to one million) and it targets servers, which not only have far...

Figure 2: Smominru Stats and Payments on the MineXMR mining pool. Figure 6: Smominru adapting to the sinkholing and returning to two thirds of its hash rate with a new Monero mining address.

Smominru has several methods of infiltration. Commonly, the EternalBlue exploit (also used in WannaCry and NotPetya attacks), which preys on a vulnerability in Microsoft's SMB protocol, is used.

The Smominru botnet targets outdated Windows machines using EternalBlue, the exploit that enabled the WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks.

Smominru explained. The WannaCry cyberattack in summer 2017 crippled thousands of computers in a The Smominru miner botnet turns infected machines into miners of the cryptocurrency Monero...

Smominru is a wormable malware that spreads using the EternalBlue exploit and by brute forcing RDP, MSSQL, Telnet Smominru statistics. As this worm uses the EternalBlue exploit, the researchers...

Threats actors behind the Smominru botnet compromised nearly 90,000 windows computers in last month using EternalBlue exploit and performing brute force attacks on MS-SQL, RDP, Telnet services.