Last week we announced the discovery of Bondnet, a new botnet that was uncovered by Guardicore Labs. The originator of Bondnet had installed a cryptocurrency miner and backdoor in thousands of servers of varying power and conscripted them into a botnet – a group of computing devices that can be centrally controlled for malicious purposes.From there the Bondnet army can be used to launch DDoS attacks as we’ve seen with the IoT botnet  Mirai . The fact that the Bondnet victims are servers with strong compute capabilities makes it possible for the attacker to use any victim server to scan more victims, exfiltrate data, deploy ransomware or laterally move inside a network. Bondnet victims include high profile global companies, universities, city councils and other public institutions.…