On Thursday, Microsoft warned users about a cross-platform botnet that targets private Minecraft servers with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The botnet, known as MCCrash, has a special technique for propagating that allows it to infect Linux-based computers despite its origins in malicious software downloaded on Windows hosts. Cybersecurity researchers from Microsoft are tracking the cluster of incidents as DEV-1028.

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