article thumbnail

Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

Mining 126
article thumbnail

Two Estonian citizens arrested in $575M cryptocurrency fraud scheme

Security Affairs

“They induced victims to enter into fraudulent equipment rental contracts with the defendants’ cryptocurrency mining service called HashFlare. ” The defendants are accused to have defrauded the victims between December 2013 and August 2019, they operated with other co-conspirators residing in Estonia, Belarus, and Switzerland.

Mining 89
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PgMiner botnet exploits disputed CVE to hack unsecured PostgreSQL DBs

Security Affairs

“We believe PGMiner is the first cryptocurrency mining botnet that is delivered via PostgreSQL.” Once the bot accessed to the database, it uses the PostgreSQL “ COPY from PROGRAM ” feature to download and launch the coin mining scripts directly from the underlying server.

Mining 133
article thumbnail

Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. The very first discussion thread started by the new user Microleaves on the forum BlackHatWorld in 2013 sought forum members who could help test and grow the proxy network.

article thumbnail

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

article thumbnail

First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

” The SEC said the 800 million+ records had been publicly available on First American’s website since 2013. There’s no way to tell unless you can go back through all your logs all those years.”

Insurance 265
article thumbnail

Vietnam-linked Bismuth APT leverages coin miners to stay under the radar

Security Affairs

The OceanLotus APT group is a state-sponsored group that has been active since at least 2013. ” According to Microsoft, the APT group started using the crypto-mining malware to trick the defense staff of the targets into believing their attacks are not highly targeted intrusions.

Mining 94