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Plex2Shell: Active Exploitation of 4-CVE Chain Drops Miners and Backdoors
- Engineer — Act: Active exploitation began within a day of PoC publication; patch Plex Media Server to the latest available release immediately, or block external access to the Plex port until patching is possible.
- SOC/IR — Act: Exploitation is live with known payload types — hunt for anomalous CPU-intensive child processes spawned by the Plex service and unusual outbound proxy/tunnel connections on hosts running Plex since the PoC release date.
- Leader — Skip
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