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title: "Critical Atlassian Flaw Exploited to Deploy Linux Variant of Cerber Ransomware"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/critical-atlassian-flaw-exploited-to-deploy-linux-variant-of-cerber-ransomware-08xedkjgk
source_url: https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/critical-atlassian-flaw-exploited-to.html
type: article
source: "The Hacker News"
published: 2024-04-17T11:08:17.016Z
updated: 2024-05-09T07:55:57.971Z
tags: ["linux", "vulnerability", "atlassian"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Critical Atlassian Flaw Exploited to Deploy Linux Variant of Cerber Ransomware

**[The Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/thn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Threat actors are exploiting an unpatched Atlassian server vulnerability to deploy a Linux variant of Cerber ransomware. The attackers create an administrator account using the vulnerability and use it to install the Effluence web shell plugin and execute arbitrary commands. The primary payload of the Cerber ransomware is a loader for additional malware. Several ransomware families have been targeting Windows and VMware ESXi servers.

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Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#vulnerability](https://daily.dev/tags/vulnerability), [#atlassian](https://daily.dev/tags/atlassian)

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