Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Security experts at Microsoft analyzed a new strain of cryptocurrency miner tracked as Dexphot that has been active since at least October 2018. The malicious code abuse of the resources of the infected machine to mine cryptocurrency , according to the experts it has already infected 80,000 computers worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. “ Illicit access to compromised or backdoored sites and databases is used by criminals for a number of activities, ranging from spam campaigns, to fraud, or cryptocurrency mining.”

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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. For example, after encryption, the file “1.jpg” jpg” might have an appearance similar to this example: “hmv8IGQE5oYCLEd2IS3wZQ==.135DB21A6CE65DAEFE26.crypted000007”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new piece of malware, dubbed XBash piece that is targeting both Linux and Microsoft Windows servers. Redis arbitrary file write and remote command execution , which was first disclosed in October 2015 and has no CVE number assigned. This is shown below in Figure 6.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

This year, security experts at Avast have blocked more than 4.6 ” Avast researchers also observed crooks using DNS hijacking to deliver crypto mining scripts to users’ browsers. The post For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with router attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. According to BleepingComputer , the malicious code was also analyzed by the Italian cyber security expert Marco Ramilli who noticed similarities to the Persirai.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes (Mr.sh) is a nice example of Pirate-Mining and even if it’s hard to figure out its magnitude, since the attacker built-up private pool-proxies, I believe it’s interesting to fix wallet address in memories and to share IoC for future Protection. XMRIG prove 1. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

At the same time, the cyber security industry is also moving very quickly to keep pace with the technology disruptions. The ways & means of delivering effective cyber security have gone through radical changes in last 6 -7 years to ensure security in this dynamic environment. Need of an API.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

An example of this routine is the following: for /d /r “c:” %%a in (preferences.ini) do ( if exist “%%a” ( for /f %%b in (‘findstr /c:”IncomingDir=” “%%a”‘) do ( set “var=%%b” for %%c in (“! .*”) Code Snippet 2: Example of propagation routine.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Gus: I formed the company in March 2015 with tech co-founder John Rotherham. 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. Martin: Tell me a bit about the history of Tussell.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cybersecurity experts at CyberNews hijacked close to 28,000 unsecured printers worldwide and forced them to print out a guide on printer security. Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Original post: [link].

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Mine has been a positive one, and I thank the ICRM for supporting the opportunity for measurable, professional validation. For example, I recently attended a webinar for a software product that most of us would recognize by name. Literally, from a major info solution CEO in August, 2015!!!]. They were for me.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Today, let’s take a look back at cases related to cooperation, form of production, privilege and confidentiality disputes, social media related disputes and a key case regarding biometric security. BIOMETRIC SECURITY. 2015: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Perhaps you missed some of these? Now is your chance to catch up!

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all security. And on November 9 2015, a Google Doodle celebrated Lamarr’s 100 and first birthday.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. Just over 2 years ago, my wife (Kylie) had spinal surgery.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

If @1Password was to integrate with my newly released Pwned Passwords k-Anonymity model so you could securely check your exposure against the service (it'd have to be opt in, of course). My hope is that for many, this will be the prompt they need to make an important change to their online security posture. Oh wow - look at this!

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For now, let's talk about what the term means, starting with how it works in Chrome on the PC: That's what you get by "clicking it once" - an assurance that the connection is secure which really just reiterates what we already know courtesy of the padlock icon.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

For example, there was VTech back in 2015 who leaked millions of kids' info after they registered with "smart" tablets. The Gator3 watch turned out to have even more serious security flaws, storing parents and kids’ voice messages on an openly available webserver. but the link to the privacy and security policies was dead.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Most organisation begin with "we take the security of your data seriously", layer on lawyer speak, talk about credit cards not being exposed and then promise to provide further updates as they come to hand. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

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