Larry Cashdollar has been working in the security field as a vulnerability researcher for more than 20 years and is currently a Principal Security Researcher on the Security Intelligence Response Team at Akamai. He studied computer science at the University of Southern Maine. Larry has documented more than 300 CVEs and has presented his research at BotConf, BSidesBoston, OWASP Rhode Island, and DEF CON. He enjoys the outdoors and rebuilding small engines in his spare time. Malware that can target Windows and Linux systems was recently installed on my honeypot.  After some investigation, I determined it to be similar to the malware discovered in February of 2019 by Malwarebytes, and later examined by  Fortinet in October that same year . \r\n Written in Golang, the malware is called Stealthworker. Once a system is successfully infected, the attackers will use it to probe other targets in an attempt to spread and continue the brute force operations.…