Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. “Pro-Ocean uses known vulnerabilities to target cloud applications.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Storm-0324 malware distributor targets victims via Teams Microsoft reports that a threat actor identified as Storm-0324, who has been associated with email phishing campaigns since at least 2016, has been sending phishing lures via Teams since July 2023. It appears, however, in the target inbox as a file, not a link.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In addition to the C2 change, functionality was also added to their LSD malware to exploit ActiveMQ servers vulnerable to CVE-2016-3088.” The group also improved its LSD dropper by adding the malicious code to exploit CVE-2016-3088 in ActiveMQ servers. SecurityAffairs – Rocke cybercrime gang, mine r ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A number of tech companies – including Google – already mine small parts of the NHS store. Donald Trump has made clear he wants a post-Brexit Britain to let US tech companies and big pharma access medical records The NHS is a goldmine of patient data which the United States wants to be quarried by some of its biggest companies.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). ARMA defines data as “Any symbols or characters that represent raw facts or figures and form the basis of information” (ARMA 2016, p 12). This is a best-case scenario.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The police also seized an extensive bitcoin mining operation in Bulgaria associated with QQAAZZ. QQAAZZ attempted to launder tens of millions stolen from victims starting with 2016 by the world’s foremost cybercriminals. ” reads the press release published by Europol. ” reads the press release published by Europol.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. In May, Internet scans found nearly one million systems vu lnerable to the BlueKeep flaw.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. They are also extending their malicious activities beyond DDoS attacks to also spread ransomware, crypto mine and burrow deep into large enterprises. Barest tip.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year. The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

During 2016, 39 states were hacked. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. In March 2018, the city of Atlanta fell victim to a ransomware attack that shut down its computer network. City agencies were unable to collect payment. Police departments had to handwrite reports.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. “In ActiveMQ arbitrary file write vulnerability , CVE-2016-3088.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016. Smart money.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

174 Linux cryptominer uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (aka Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions on the infected system. 174 Linux cryptominer uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (aka Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions on the infected system.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. trillion in 2016 – cybercrime can be viewed as a 14% tax on growth”. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected. of global GDP. “To

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Only now we known that International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was hacked in 2016. Cyber Command disrupted blocked Russian troll factory during 2018 midterms. Cisco WebEx Meetings affected by a new elevation of privilege flaw. Enjoy it! [SI-LAB]

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” In a March 2016 post to CPAElites, Acidut said they had a worthwhile offer for people involved in pay-per-install or “PPI” schemes , which match criminal gangs who pay for malware installs with enterprising hackers looking to sell access to compromised PCs and websites.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I first spoke to Kumar Saurabh, LogicHub’s co-founder and CEO, not long after the company launched in 2016. Stuck in a rut Enter SOAR, which takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies and applies them to cybersecurity. based LogicHub. billion, and later co-founded SumoLogic.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Back in 2016, IBM formed a partnership with ESPN. So we’re also using the natural language processing capability of Watson Discovery to mine insights from millions of blogs, articles and podcasts produced by media experts (see here to learn more ). And no, it’s not because the Giants and IBM are both nicknamed “Big Blue.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

“Underminer delivers a bootkit that infects the system’s boot sectors as well as a cryptocurrency-mining malware named Hidden Mellifera.” CVE-2016-0189 , a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) patched in May 2016. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro.

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Archive-It

JULY 28, 2020

Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and computational approaches to analyzing large sets of data, text, and records from the web. by the Archive-It team. We are excited to announce a significant expansion of our partnership.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

BlackEnergy is considered the key element in the attack aimed at Ukrainian power grid in 2015 and 2016 , it was also involved in attacks against mining and railway systems in the country. Ukraine is accusing Russian intelligence services of carrying out cyberattacks against one of its government organizations.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 12, 2022

When I joined IBM in 2016, our business strategy centered on hybrid cloud and AI. We can now mine the capabilities of a data fabric architecture to provide a more positive user experience that gets data into the hands of those who need it most with trust, transparency, and agility. Understand your strategic drivers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The payloads used in this campaign were droppers used to deliver a cryptocurrency miner to mine TurtleCoin cryptocurrency. The compile time for these files suggests that it had been created in 2016, but most AV engines still not detect them as malicious. ” reads the report published by Guardicore. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

” By the beginning of 2016, Bloom was nowhere to be found, and was suspected of having fled his country for the Caribbean, according to the people commenting on the Near Reality Facebook page: “Jordan aka Agentjags has gone missing,” wrote a presumed co-owner of the Facebook page. Copies of near-reality[.]com

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government has already blocked the p rofessional social network L inkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation. .” Russia’s Roskomnadzor revealed that the proceedings protocol was signed in the presence of a representative of Twitter, while no Facebook representative was present to sign it.

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CILIP

JUNE 29, 2021

t refuse to sell paper books to libraries, but they can and do refuse to sell them eBooks. And all we want to do is to be allowed to do what we?ve ve always done, to keep the status quo, to be allowed to build collections, preserve and lend, so it is strange that the solution sounds a bit frightening and radical,? m serious when I say we?re

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). Since in Tech we often travel “for a living”, I found in my bag an older Starwood preferred guest card. Not used in years.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. In March, it transpired that a further 2.4

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The most recent Troldesh campaigns show that it now does not just encrypt files, but also can mine cryptocurrency and generate phony traffic on websites to increase revenue from ad-fraud ( [link] ). RTM first appeared in 2016 and attracted attention as its C&C was a LiveJournal (Russian social networking service) page.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

A new year brings another run at my annual predictions: For 17 years now, I’ve taken a few hours to imagine what might happen over the course of the coming twelve months. And my goodness did I swing for the fences last year ?—?and and I pretty much whiffed. 300 is great in the majors, but it kind of sucks compared to my historical average.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading it as well. These “How I Did” posts are usually the most popular of the year, beating even the original predictions in readership and engagement. What’s that about, anyway? Is it the spectacle of watching a guy admit he got things wrong? Cheering when I get it right?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year). But, that’s not the whole story.

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CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

while the share of spending on traditional direct response media like newspapers has shrunk from 38% in 2008 to 14% in 2016. In the 2018 CGI Client Global Insights, 87% of utilities executives ranked analytics as both a top IT and business priority, compared to just 41% in 2016. Why is this so? Quite simply, data.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The World Wide Web was very much a niche technology for decades before it bloomed to such an extent that it now touches more than half the world?s s population in one way or another. Now we are in a place where Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the ideas that are set to launch the next big thing. s going on and what?s Structural Change.

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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. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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