Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Hackers Exploited an Unpatched VMWare Horizon Server to Gain Access Iranian hackers used Log4Shell to penetrate the network of an unnamed federal agency where they stole passwords and implanted cryptocurrency mining software. Whether the Iranians were acting wholly on Tehran's behalf, on their own behalf, or both, is uncertain.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Researchers: 'Hildegard' Linked to TeamTNT Hacking Group A previously undocumented malware variant called "Hildegard" is targeting Kubernetes clusters, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The malicious code is likely the work of the TeamTNT hacking group, which mines for monero cryptocurrency.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Though harboring unsophisticated payloads, the Panda threat group has updated its tactics - from targets to infrastructure - and successfully mined hundreds of thousands of dollars using cryptomining malware.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 25, 2021

Cybereason Says Russian Hacking Group Prometei is Behind the Campaign A Russian botnet group called Prometei is exploiting critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to mine cryptocurrency from various organizations across the world, a new report by security firm Cybereason finds.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 26, 2021

Cybereason Says Russian Hacking Group Prometei Is Behind the Campaign A Russian botnet group called Prometei is exploiting critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to mine cryptocurrency across the world, a new report by security firm Cybereason finds.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence , over a year, the number of shadow-forum ads offering mining software has increased fivefold (H1 2018 vs H1 2017).

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mining has been a vital part of Alaska’s economy for hundreds of years. Often when we think of mining in Alaska, we think of gold mining and the gold rush of the late 1800s. The first commercial coal mine in Alaska was opened in 1855 by the Russian-American Company in the same location. NAID: 60006457. NAID: 60089626.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 15, 2022

To be a responsible data scientist, there’s two key considerations when building a model pipeline: Bias: a model which makes predictions for people of different group (or race, gender ethnic group etc.) The post 3 new steps in the data mining process to ensure trustworthy AI appeared first on Journey to AI Blog.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 4, 2018

The very design of bitcoin, as well as some other virtual currencies, can lend a surprising amount of information about the groups using it to transact. Expert Says Virtual Currency Systems Leak Useful Data to Track Criminals Experts have long warned that bitcoin is not as private as it appears.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

The TeamTNT cybercrime group has improved its Linux cryptocurrency miner by implementing open-source detection evasion capabilities. The TeamTNT cybercrime group has upgraded their Linux cryptocurrency miner by adding open-source detection evasion capabilities, AT&T Alien Labs researchers warn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. The post Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers. Read next: How to Control API Security Risks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

182 used in this campaign was previously associated with the operations of the TeamTNT group. “Our July 2021 research into TeamTNT showed that the group previously used credential stealers that would rake in credentials from configuration files. Experts noticed that the IP address 45[.]9[.]148[.]182 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter botnet is still used by Russia-linked group APT28 and cybercriminals organizations. Trend Micro researchers reported that the EdgeRouter botnet , called Moobot , used by the APT28 group is still active and is also used by cyber criminal organizations. ” reported Trend Micro. ” reported Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed a new piece of malware apparently designed to target PIK-Group that implements ransomware , Trojan, and Miner capabilities. which according to google translate would be: “PIK Group of Companies order details”. According to zcashnetwork the attacker’s wallet received from mining activity 4.89

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. Mining process.”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Betteridge’s law of headlines says no, but according to an interesting blog from Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group this week, criminals eager to cash in while the cryptocurrency bubble continues to inflate are increasingly taking a different approach: cutting out the middleman and using cryptominers. Ed Balls day is 28 April.).

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

Researchers from Trend Micro reported that about 50,000 IPs were compromised across multiple Kubernetes clusters in a cryptojacking campaign conducted by TeamTNT group. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. sh) used by the TeamTNT group.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. “ To be clear, there was no Cloudflare breach. ” reads the message published on the group’s Telegram channel.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April and that targets Docker installs. The activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but the new feature was added only recently. It’s the first worm we’ve seen that contains such AWS specific functionality.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

.” The binary establishes a connection to the C&C server, then scans processes running on the compromised device and attempts to kill any that are running the CoinHive script that could be mining Monero. He is currently Global CISO for the ATCO Group of companies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The software firm also recommends checking instances for the following indicators of compromise: unexpected members of the confluence-administrator group unexpected newly created user accounts requests to /setup/*.action

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Charging documents say the seven men are part of a hacking group known variously as “ APT41 ,” “ Barium ,” “ Winnti ,” “ Wicked Panda ,” and “ Wicked Spider.” One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The financially motivated TeamTNT hacking group expanded its arsenal with new tools used to target thousands of victims worldwide. Researchers from AT&T Alien Labs uncovered a new campaign, tracked as Chimaera, conducted by the TeamTNT group , aimed at organizations worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by AT&T.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August experts from Cado Security discovered that that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

Researchers uncovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting the NPM JavaScript package repository. Checkmarx researchers spotted a new large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign, tracked as CuteBoi , that is targeting the NPM JavaScript package repository. CuteBoi relies on a disposable email service called mail.tm

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A small group of cybercriminals are responsible for the most damaging cyberattacks--often with the help of state sponsorship. Still, low-level criminal activity on the dark web still poses the most widespread and immediate security threat, with cryptocurrency mining, ransomware and malware all on the rise, a recent report has found.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2023

” Meta pointed to research from Interisle Consulting Group , which discovered in 2021 and again last year that the five ccTLDs operated by Freenom made up half of the Top Ten TLDs most abused by phishers. Interisle partner Dave Piscitello said something remarkable has happened in the months since the Meta lawsuit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world. Espionage as one of the main APT groups’ goals.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. Eight of the groups use Raccoon malware, 23 use Redline, and three use custom stealers. Gaming Becomes a Target.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. ” “The web shell path that was dropped was new to us,” said Watson said.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation. So how do you spot this early, and react or even prevent this in a timely and effective manner?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. As of at least May 2021, an APT actor group almost certainly exploited a Fortigate appliance to access a webserver hosting the domain for a U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. EVRAZ is one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies with headquarters in London.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I asked Mariano delli Santi, legal and policy officer with data protection advocate Open Rights Group. That’s according to a Norwegian professor who recently argued that conspiratorial thinking spans everything from 5G theories to believing the referee really is against your team. I think my phone is somehow listening in.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

Cado researchers recently detected an interesting attack pattern linked to an emerging cybercrime group tracked as Diicot (formerly, “Mexals”) and described in analyses published by Akamai and Bitdefender. “Diicot are an emerging threat group with a range of objectives and the technical knowledge to act on them.

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