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by charcircuit 15 days ago
Looking at it, all they do is install ssh keys. I honestly expected them to do more like start some kind of service.
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That was my first impression too, since the SSH-key installation attempts are much more frequent and tend to dominate the feed.

I did find at least one campaign that went further: it tried to fetch `http://41.216.189.157/run.sh` with wget or curl, execute it, and remove the script afterward. The downloader referenced payloads for aarch64, i386, loongarch64, and m68k, so it appears to be targeting a fairly broad set of Linux systems.

I haven't fully analyzed the artifacts yet, so I can't say exactly what service or payload it ultimately installs. But it was definitely doing more than adding a key.

This also exposed a weakness in the current UI: repetitive persistence attempts are prominent, while rarer download and execution chains are easy to miss.