For recent big data software vulnerabilities, botnets and coin mining are just the beginning

Any company using Hadoop or Spark should be certain they have the capability to detect and respond to vulnerabilities in these systems rapidly. One way to do so is to monitor REST API requests to their resource management tools as they come in across the wire, and respond via alerts or orchestration when behavior is detected that could indicate the attempted exploitation of such vulnerabilities.

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