Recently, someone reached out to us about a malicious process they had discovered running on their web server. This process was maxing out the CPU, which is not unusual when a cryptominer process is running without any throttling.

Below is an example of what this kind of process looks like when using the ps -aux command:

Malicious Processes on Web Servers

So, what creates this malicious process in the first place?

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