Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service. In December 2017, $52 million worth of Bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from NiceHash coffers. “We’ve identified in excess of a thousand of his victims.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. LinkedIn sent a cease-and-desist letter to hiQ in 2017 requesting that the company stop accessing and copying data from its servers.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2018

Criminals' Quest for Cryptocurrency Continues If 2017 was the year of ransomware innovation, 2018 is well on its way to being known as the year of cryptocurrency mining malware. Numerous studies have found that the most seen malware attacks today are designed for cryptojacking.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Further analysis revealed that the malware has been used since at least 2017. Kaspersky discovered that the detections between 2017 and 2022 had previously misclassified as a cryptocurrency miner. Kaspersky researchers discovered that over one million updates have been downloaded from the C2 infrastructure since 2017.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. 27, 2019 and already mined at least 209 Monero (XMR), valued to be around $32,056 USD. Oracle WebLogic Server CVE-2017-10271 – versions 10.3.6.0.0, Drupal Versions 7 and 8. x before 1.4.3) 1.13.10, 2.0-2.0.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“They induced victims to enter into fraudulent equipment rental contracts with the defendants’ cryptocurrency mining service called HashFlare. The bad news for the investors is that HashFlare did not have the virtual currency mining equipment it claimed to have. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 26, 2017

have been making their rounds these past few months, mine included (authoring tools), but what about the worst? Ok, I will say more because here is 2017’s edition for the WORST in e-learning. Award Category – Most overused term or statement in 2017. I have it still to this day. I say no more. . And the winner is.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most of DarkGate attacks were observed in the Americas region, followed closely by those in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. ” concludes the report.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“Everyone thinks their data is the messiest in the world, and mine maybe is because it’s taken from people who don’t want us to have it, frankly,” said Herrera’s immediate predecessor at the NSA, the computer scientist Deborah Frincke, during a 2017 talk at Stanford.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Chaos malware supports more than 70 different commands, including executing propagation through the exploitation of pre-determined CVEs, launching DDoS attacks or starting crypto mining. Some samples analyzed by the experts were able to exploit the CVE-2017-17215 and CVE-2022-30525 , respectively impacting Huawei and Zyxel devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. Recently, Kinsing actors were observed exploiting vulnerable Openfire servers. ” continues the analysis. The script is accessible for review here.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

A security researcher discovered a new crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that leverages several exploits to evade detection. The security researcher James Quinn has spotted a new strain of crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that appears to be very profitable and leverages several exploits to evade detection.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. “If somehow I can make small change and help to improve this, inside myself I can feel that I did something that actually matters and helped others.” And thank goodness it did.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload. The bot used a user-mode rootkit to hide the malicious process and malicious registry entries created.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. ” concludes the analysis.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

“As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers. The mining script then gets activated and begins using the majority of the computer’s CPU cycles to mine Monero for the operators.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. However, there is a chance that tested exploits are already implemented and are spreading in the wild.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. Coinhive took a whopping 30 percent of the cut of all Monero currency mined by its code, and this presented something of a conflict of interest when it came to stopping the rampant abuse of its platform.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

“In the web server compromise, Beapy also attempted to exploit an Apache Struts vulnerability ( CVE-2017-5638 ). . “In the web server compromise, Beapy also attempted to exploit an Apache Struts vulnerability ( CVE-2017-5638 ). . “ Beapy ( W32.Beapy ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Gartner analysts estimate that over 80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured and is growing up to 65 percent a year, enticing cyber criminals to mine the mother lode. Related video: Why it’s high time to protect unstructured data.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. More recently, it has mainly distributed the JSSLoader malware for the Sangria Tempest group.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Experts pointed out that the Shellbot code first appeared in 2005 and is being used by several threat groups, it was also used in the massive crypto-mining campaign that was exploiting the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in March 2017. “

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

The RCMP arrested Bloom in December 2017, and said he made approximately $250,000 selling hacked data, which included information on 37 million user accounts leaked in the 2015 Ashley Madison breach. ” COME, ABUSE WITH US The gold farming reference is fascinating because in 2017 KrebsOnSecurity published Who Ran LeakedSource?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

First identified in 2017 by the security firm Deep Instinct , Mylobot employs a number of fairly sophisticated methods to remain undetected on infected hosts, such as running exclusively in the computer’s temporary memory, and waiting 14 days before attempting to contact the botnet’s command and control servers. . com on Mar.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

The malware is being distributed via large-scale COVID-19-themed spam campaigns, the messages use an RTF exploit targeting the CVE-2017-8570 Microsoft Office RCE to deliver the malicious payload. “This aspect of the campaign expands the mining operation to support computers running Linux. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Additionally, a mine appears in the water near the Nashville, potentially posing a threat to the vessel. . The map of Le Bonhomme in France appears to be pretty average but it is the unique connection to a photograph within the holdings of the Still Pictures Branch which makes this map a favorite of 2017. Constitution.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The primary purpose of the KashmirBlack botnet is to abuse resources of compromised systems for cryptocurrency mining and redirecting a site’s legitimate traffic to spam pages. The experts observed millions of attacks per day on average, on thousands of victims in more than 30 different countries around the world.

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Information is Currency

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Cybersecurity is in direct conflict with the basis tenants of data analysis, especially big data analysis, predictive analytics and data mining. Yesterday I passed two parts of the ICRM exam. The lead up to it caused me to delay links of the day. Sorry for the delay. Please read, enjoy, share and do your part to mature the InfoGov community.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Analyzing other 2017’s threat reports, we noticed the address did not changed over time, different story for the email address. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. It contains a russian speaking JavaScript file named “«??? «??? «?????????» ??????????? ??????”,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

The list of exploits used by the malware includes EternalBlue , DoublePulsar ; exploits for CVE-2014-6287, Tomcat arbitrary file upload vulnerability CVE-2017-12615 , CVE-2017-8464 ; and three ThinkPHP exploits for different versions of the framework. ” states Trend Micro. It also has wormlike behavior for lateral propagation.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Once compromised the system, a first-stage Powershell script named blueps.txt is downloaded onto the machine.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

That's the context that accompanied a massive trove of data that was sent to me 2 years ago now. I looked into it, tried to attribute and verify it then put it in the "too hard basket" and moved onto more pressing issues. One of the first things I do after receiving a data breach is to literally just Google it: acuity data breach.

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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. According to Cisco, 32% of breaches affected more than half of an organisation’s systems in 2017, up from 15% the previous year. Here are this week’s stories. of global GDP. “To

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2019

“Recently, 360 Total Security team intercepted a new worm PsMiner written in Go, which uses CVE-2018-1273, CVE-2017-10271, CVE-2015-1427, CVE-2014-3120 and other high-risk vulnerabilities ? The final stage payload is the open source Xmrig CPU miner that allows PSMiner to mine for Monero cryptocurrency.

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