Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In March 2018, the city of Atlanta fell victim to a ransomware attack that shut down its computer network. During 2016, 39 states were hacked. As Ananth explained, the city did two things right: they had cyber insurance and they didn’t pay the ransom. City agencies were unable to collect payment. Years of data disappeared.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

With what we experienced in 2016 and 2018, is there any doubt there will be a rise in disinformation–homegrown and imported–of all stripe in the upcoming elections? Ransomware will continue to thrive. Related to the botnet craze, we will see an increase in computing power theft used to mine cryptocurrency.

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