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Plex Media Server hit by four-vulnerability exploit chain

Plex Media Server hit by four-vulnerability exploit chain

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Community Trust Score Verified 94 % Real Verified 16 votes Updated 49 seconds ago Security researchers have now observed an active and targeted attack campaign, dubbed Plex2Shell, which specifically targets installations of Plex Media Server to install unauthorized XMRig cryptocurrency miners and a Linux proxy backdoor. This particular technique relies upon a chain of four specific vulnerabilities that, when combined in a sequence, allow attackers to achieve remote code execution on the affected systems.

Source: The Currency Analytics

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