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Hackers targeting Drupal vulnerabilities to install the Shellbot Backdoor

Security Affairs

Security experts from IBM are targeting Drupal vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602 flaws, aka Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3 , to install a backdoor on the infected systems and tack full control of the hosted platforms. Security Affairs – Drupal, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. The first folder to analyze is “a”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Dreaming of Enterprise RSS functionality

ChiefTech

We think there are three big, compelling reasons to use a managed system for integrating RSS in your enterprise communications mix: synchronization, analytics and security. " Attensa is a client of mine, and I live the benefits every day. If you check out their original post, they actually offer 9 further reasons.

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Interview with Gus Tugendhat of Tussell

Information Matters

Since 2005 we’ve grown organically to a team of 9 people with a fairly even split between product and tech and those working in marketing and sales. The market already has lots of tender portals but nobody has taken the tenders and contracts and turned them into an intelligent database which can be mined efficiently.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. “Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” Capital One said in a statement posted to its site.