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Title: Kinsing Actors Exploiting Recent Linux Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments
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Kinsing Actors Exploiting Recent Linux Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments

The threat actors linked to Kinsing have been observed attempting to exploit the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw called Looney Tunables as part of a "new experimental campaign" designed to breach cloud environments.
"Intriguingly, the attacker is also broadening the horizons of their cloud-native attacks by extracting credentials from the Cloud Service Provider (CSP)," cloud

Source: Kinsing Actors Exploiting Recent Linux Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments (https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/kinsing-actors-exploit-linux-flaw-to.html)