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Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws

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A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

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consumers, and roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) for Canadian credit card customers. According to the FBI, Thompson also used a public Meetup group under the same alias, where she invited others to join a Slack channel named “ Netcrave Communications.”