The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. I talked with Jonathan Sander, Chief Technology Officer with STEALTHbits Technologies , about this at Black Hat USA 2018. Ransomware “is encrypting files, unstructured data.” Ransomware target.
Security Affairs
MAY 27, 2021
The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. In April, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) previously warned of attacks carried out by APT groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 13, 2021
” The malware was first spotted in February 2018 by researchers from Proofpoint when the bot was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Encryption used is a very simple ROT cipher, where the key is set to -1.”
IT Governance
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 million account holders.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
CVE-2020-14882 Oracle WebLogic Server RCE, and CVE-2018-20062 ThinkPHP RCE) and targeting sites and systems protected with weak administrative credentials. Upon infecting a system, the malware abuses its resources to mine cryptocurrency. . The malware spread through attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities (i.e.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 8, 2021
“The loader decrypts the malicious malware and executes it using memfd create (as described in this blog in 2018). Upon executing the code, it will ask the user the path for the payload to be encrypted and the password to be used for AES encryption to hide the malware within the loader.
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.
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