Remote Server Compromised

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  • changedetection.io

    The best and simplest free open source web page change detection, website watcher, restock monitor and notification service. Restock Monitor, change detection. Designed for simplicity - Simply monitor which websites had a text change for free. Free Open source web page change detection, Website defacement monitoring, Price change notification

  • So I recently installed ChangeDetectioIO on my server, it requires either selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59 or browserless/chrome. I installed it with Selenium in a docker container since I noticed that it was running better than the browserless/chrome service.

  • docker-selenium

    Provides a simple way to run Selenium Grid with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge using Docker, making it easier to perform browser automation

  • If you look on selenium's dockerhub, there are many images to chose from which are much newer. As far as I'm concerned, that image is abandoned and I would definitely not use it. Not saying it is the reason for whatever happened to you, but kind of shocking that change detection is recommending it.

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  • xmrig

    RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and GhostRider unified CPU/GPU miner and RandomX benchmark

  • Now, it had been almost 10 days since I set that up, but 2 days ago a reverse shell script was executed via selenium to gain remote access to my server, and the attacker installed the xmrig crypto miner along with a script that monitors that xm/xmrig is still running.

  • browserless

    Deploy headless browsers in Docker. Run on our cloud or bring your own. Free for non-commercial uses.

  • So I recently installed ChangeDetectioIO on my server, it requires either selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59 or browserless/chrome. I installed it with Selenium in a docker container since I noticed that it was running better than the browserless/chrome service.

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